Nvidia, Rebellions and SK Telecom team up on sovereign AI infrastructure

The three companies will use Nvidia NVLink Fusion to build AI systems aimed at reducing South Korea's reliance on outside technology Nvidia, SK Telecom and Korean chip startup Rebellions will jointly develop sovereign AI infrastructure. The technology tying the project together is Nvidia NVLink Fusion. Rebellions makes its own AI chips, and NVLink Fusion is built to bring third-party accelerators like those into Nvidia’s ecosystem, so they work alongside it instead of outside it. For South Korea, the goal is to depend less on external technology. The plan leans on the two industries where the country already has real muscle: semiconductors and telecommunications. What each company brings NVLink Fusion is Nvidia’s way of integrating accelerators from other companies into one connected system. The stated aims are better energy efficiency and stronger performance on AI workloads. SK Telecom plans to launch a gigawatt-scale AI factory in Korea built on Nvidia’s DSX AI Factory architecture, with an operational target of 2027. The buildout is meant to start on Nvidia’s Blackwell platform and would then move to the upcoming Vera Rubin platforms. Rebellions’ ATOM-Max NPUs are already runni...