ARM's recently announced AGI CPU powers Agentic AI & Telcom in a new partnership with SK Telecom & Rebellions.
ARM, Rebellions & SK Telecom Collaboration Delivers Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Agentic AI & Telcom Needs
Press Release: Rebellions, a global leader in AI inference infrastructure, announces a collaboration with SK Telecom (SKT) and Arm to develop AI inference infrastructure designed to support sovereign AI and telecommunications-focused AI data centers. Through this collaboration, the companies plan to develop an AI server combining Arm AGI CPU, the first Arm-designed data center CPU, with Rebellion’s AI chips. The system will be validated in SKT’s AI data center environment before expanding to global markets.
This alliance, featuring industry leaders from each AI infrastructure field, aims to address the surging demand in the inference market and set standards for high-performance, energy-efficient sovereign AI infrastructure. Together, the companies plan to collaborate across the value chain from infrastructure design through real-world deployment and validation.
As part of the initiative, the Arm AGI CPU, built on Arm Neoverse CSS V3, and Rebellions’ RebelCard accelerator, will be combined into high-performance server infrastructure. Beyond hardware integration, the partners will co-develop the entire software stack, including firmware, and deploy the developed solutions in SKT’s live data center environments to verify performance and stability for sovereign AI models and telco-specific large-scale data processing. There are plans to review running SKT’s proprietary foundation model, A.X K1, on these servers.
Some features of the Rebel-Quad include:
- Energy efficiency & performance: Higher compute density and utilization deliver significantly better performance per watt
- Chiplet interconnect: World’s first adoption of UCIe-Advanced, enabling power-efficient data transfer across chiplets
- HBM3E integration: 144GB HBM3E with 4.8TB/s bandwidth, enough for tens of billions of parameters on a single chip
Following technical validation, the partners plan to explore broader commercial deployment opportunities. Through this, Rebellions intends to supply optimized solutions for the global Sovereign AI data center market and secure a strong presence, particularly in Asia. Specifically, the focus will be on supplying customized, stability-proven solutions to global telecommunications companies and public sectors that require independent AI infrastructure.
About Rebellions RebelCard
The Rebellions RebelCard is a module-type card product featuring Rebellions’ next-generation AI semiconductor, ‘Rebel 100’ (formerly known as Rebel-Quad). It integrates four NPU chiplets with 5th-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3E) to deliver exceptional computing power. By securing performance comparable to current flagship GPUs while exceeding them in power efficiency, it addresses the demand for energy and cost optimization in large-scale AI data centers. It is specifically optimized for running ultra-large multimodal and Mixture of Experts (MoE) models through high-speed chip-to-chip communication technology.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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