Korean AI startups chase Nvidia

Rebellions and Sapeon are two fabless chip companies in Korea founded to design AI chips.

Rebellions

Three year-old Rebellions raised $128 million in its recent Series B funding round. The CEO, Sunghyun Park (pictured), worked for Morgan Stanley and Starlink after getting a PhD at MIT.

The company is working with Samsung Foundry on the design and packaging of a chip for AI inference called ‘Rebel’ and Samsung will fab it.

Sapeon

Sapeon is backed by SK Telecom and has adopted the snappy slogan: “One tiny spark for a chip, a quantum leap for the AI inference”.

Sapeon’s chip, the X330, delivers 367 TFLOPS and is designed for inference acceleration. It is being built on TSMC’s 7nm process and is scheduled for delivery to customers in June.