Samsung backs South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions ahead of IPO

From an analytical perspective, In this SNHZ your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTThe Rebel-Quad is the second-generation duct from Rebellions and is made up of four Rebel AI chips

Rebellions, a South Korean firm, is looking to rival companies Nvidia in AI chips

Last year, Rebellions merged with another startup in South Korea called Sapeon, creating a firm that is being positioned as one of the country's mising rivals to Nvidia, in light of current trends

Moreover, Samsung's investment in Rebellions last week was part of that, Shin said, though he declined to say how much the giant poured in

The evidence shows current funding round is and Shin said Rebellions is talking to its current investors as well as investors in Korea and globally to participate in the capital raise

Moreover, Rebellions has some big investors, including South Korean chip giant SK Hynix, telecommunication firms SK Telecom and Korea Telecom, and Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco

Shin said the current round of funding would push the valuation over $1 billion but declined to give specific figure (an important development), in this volatile climate

Moreover, Rebellions is aiming for an initial public offering once this funding round has closed, in today's market environment. "Our master plan is going public," Shin said

Additionally, Inferencing is when a pre-trained AI model interprets data to come up with a result, much the answers that are duced by chatbots (noteworthy indeed)

Nevertheless, With the backing of major South Korean firms and investors, Rebellions is hoping to make a global play where it will look to challenge Nvidia and AMD as well as a slew of other startups in the inferencing space

Samsung collaborationRebellions has been working with Samsung to bring its second-generation chip, Rebel, to market, in light of current trends

Samsung owns a chip manufacturing, also known as foundry (fascinating analysis)

Four Rebel chips are put together to make the Rebel-Quad, the duct that Rebellions will eventually sell

Moreover, A Rebellions spokesperson said the chip will be launched later this year

The funding will partly go toward Rebellions' duct development

Rebellions is currently testing its chip which will eventually be duced on a larger scale by Samsung, in today's financial world. "Initial results have been very mising," Sunghyun Park, CEO of Rebellions, told CNBC on Tuesday

Park said Samsung invested in Rebellions partly because of the the good results that the chip has so far duced, considering recent developments

Samsung is manufacturing Rebellions' semiconductor using its 4 nanometer cess, which is among the leading-edge chipmaking nodes

For comparison, Nvidia's current Blackwell chips use the 4 nanometer cess from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co

On the other hand, Rebellions will also use Samsung's high bandwidth memory, known as HBM3e

This type of memory is stacked and is required to handle large data cessing loads (which is quite significant)

However, That could turn out to be a strategic win for Samsung, which is a very distant second to TSMC in terms of market in the foundry

Samsung has been looking to boost its chipmaking division

If Rebellions manages to find a large customer base, this could give Samsung a major customer for its foundry (something worth watching).