Rebellions, a domestic AI fabless startup, is gearing up for mass production of data center-specific artificial intelligence (AI) chips using Samsung Electronics’ foundry extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process at the 5-nanometer (nm) level.
According to industry sources on Nov. 13, Rebellions completed a mass production contract last week with SEMIFIVE, one of Samsung Electronics’ Design Solution Partners (DSP), for the Samsung 5-nm AI semiconductor ATOM. Mass production is set to commence early next year.
ATOM is known for its industry-leading graphics processing unit (GPU) performance and up to 3.4 times greater energy efficiency compared to equivalent neural network processors (NPU). Particularly notable is ATOM’s performance in the Global Benchmark, a semiconductor chip performance competition, where it outperformed competitors like Nvidia and Qualcomm by 1.4 to 3 times, sparking significant interest.
Earlier this year, Rebellions produced prototypes of ATOM through Samsung Foundry’s “Multi-Project Wafer Service,” which prints various types of semiconductors on a single wafer. These prototypes were supplied to KT Cloud and IBM, which is based in the United States.
Meanwhile, Rebellions is strengthening its collaboration with Samsung Electronics, co-developing the next-generation semiconductor Rebel, specialized for Large Language Models (LLM). Rebel is being developed using Samsung Foundry’s 4-nm process, with a goal to complete development in the second half of next year.