Rebellions and Pegatron Forge Strategic Partnership on AI Hardware Using Rebellions’ Chiplet-based Accelerator

Seoul, November 8, 2024  -- Rebellions, a pioneering AI chip startup from South Korea, and PEGATRON, a globally recognized Design and Manufacturing Service (DMS) provider today announced their strategic partnership. The two companies will collaborate on developing a high-performance module featuring Rebellions’ next-generation AI accelerator, REBEL.

PEGATRON, a global powerhouse in the DMS industry, combines extensive R&D capabilities with vertically integrated manufacturing to deliver innovative solutions. With annual revenues of $40 billion and a workforce of 100,000 employees, the company has established itself as a pioneer in hardware innovation. The company now focuses on rack-scale AI servers for Large Language Models (LLMs), demonstrating its ability to create state-of-the-art products for hyperscale data centers. In a significant industry milestone, this marks PEGATRON’s first strategic partnership with an AI chip startup for an advanced packaging-based project.

This collaboration aims to enhance the infrastructure for hyperscale AI computing. The partners will co-develop a dedicated module system featuring optimized electrical, mechanical, and thermal solutions to maximize the performance of Rebellion’s REBEL accelerator. The partnership with PEGATRON will ensure the timely launch of the REBEL product, aligned with mass production standards.

As AI models grow larger and companies require more powerful, yet energy-efficient systems optimized for AI serving, advanced packaging technologies such as chiplet are being applied. These developments necessitate support for a high-powered environment, raising the technological bar and requiring collaboration between companies with the necessary expertise and talent to offer future solutions.

Rebellions has already demonstrated significant expertise in large-scale chip design with REBEL, a chiplet-based accelerator with HBM3e. By combining this technology with PEGATRON’s experience in manufacturing and hardware development, this partnership expects to achieve enhanced product stability and long-term mass production capabilities, enabling Rebellions to build a global-level AI infrastructure ecosystem with a stable value chain.

James Shue, CTO of Pegatron, stated, “Pegatron has long been a leader in hardware manufacturing and design. By partnering with Rebellions, we believe the collaboration with Rebellions’ chiplet-based AI accelerators can gain essential experience and proactively address the demands of this new field and rapidly growing market.”

“Developing hyperscale AI accelerators such as REBEL requires both technical excellence and manufacturing expertise, which PEGATRON has proven through its extensive track record,” said Jinwook Oh, CTO of Rebellions. “Our partnership with PEGATRON will enable Rebellions to deliver complete, production-ready AI infrastructure solutions to the global market”

About Rebellions

Rebellions, founded in 2020, is an AI chip company that specializes in NPUs(Neural Processing Units) for AI inference, bringing superior energy efficiency as well as performance. The company successfully launched and commercialized ATOM, its AI chip optimized for data center deployment, in 2023. Currently, Rebellions is developing its next-generation AI chip, REBEL, featuring a scalable chiplet architecture and high-bandwidth 144GB HBM3e memory for Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-Modal Models (MMMs). The company is accelerating its global expansion through international strategic investments and partnerships.

For more information: https://rebellions.ai

About Pegatron

PEGATRON Corporation (hereafter referred to as “PEGATRON”) was founded on January 1, 2008. With abundant product development experience and vertically integrated manufacturing, Pegatron is committed to providing clients with innovative design, systematic production and manufacturing service in order to comprehensively and efficiently satisfy all of our customers’ needs. Drawing on accumulated experience in server design and manufacturing, Pegatron now focuses on developing a variety of state-of-the-art servers that meet the requirements of present and future Cloud Service Providers’ data centers, as well as enterprise-grade data centers.

Pegatron Corporation Website: https://www.pegatroncorp.com/