Samsung participated in a 250 million dollar Series C funding round for South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions, now valued at 1.4 billion dollars. Samsung’s foundry division is already manufacturing Rebellions’ chips using its 4nm and 5nm processes, with plans to move to 2nm technology. Other investors in this round included Arm, Pegatron VC, and Korea Development Bank. Rebellions focuses on specialized accelerators for AI inference workloads, positioning itself as a competitor to Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Samsung aims to strengthen its position against TSMC while expanding its HBM memory business through AI hardware diversification.
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