Rebellions
Three year-old Rebellions raised $128 million in its recent Series B funding round. The CEO, Sunghyun Park (pictured), worked for Morgan Stanley and Starlink after getting a PhD at MIT.
The company is working with Samsung Foundry on the design and packaging of a chip for AI inference called ‘Rebel’ and Samsung will fab it.
Sapeon
Sapeon is backed by SK Telecom and has adopted the snappy slogan: “One tiny spark for a chip, a quantum leap for the AI inference”.
Sapeon CEO Soojung Ryu (pictured) is a Georgia Tech PhD.
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