Overview
- A three-way memorandum of understanding announced Friday brings SK Telecom, Arm and Rebellions together to co-develop server systems that pair Arm’s new AGI CPU with Rebellions’ RebelCard accelerator.
- SK Telecom will test and verify the combined hardware in its own AI data centers and plans to run its sovereign foundation model A. X K1 on the new servers.
- RebelCard is designed for large-scale inference and is slated for a third-quarter release, while Arm’s AGI CPU targets high-density deployments where power use and cooling costs dominate.
- The companies previously showed the stack in March at Arm Everywhere in San Francisco by running a real-time agentic service on a 120-billion-parameter GPT model as a proof of concept.
- The partners say the work includes a full software stack and could supply telecom operators and government-backed AI programs across Asia, reflecting a broader shift from training to always-on inference that rewards energy-efficient chips.