SK Telecom’s AI enterprise to realize traction underneath direct command of chair

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SK Telecom has been anticipated to interrupt its stagnated development as a wi-fi community participant by means of companies leveraging on synthetic intelligence underneath the direct command of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won who has joined the managing board of the corporate.

SK Telecom might achieve impetus in M&A actions underneath Chey’s direct spearhead.

SK Telecom has been constructing on AI enterprise for breakthrough from saturated telecom market. The drive nevertheless has been gradual within the 5 AI-related initiatives (AI speaker, hyperscale AI, sensible manufacturing facility, AI semiconductor and AI-VERSE) regardless of its enormous manpower energy the place 20 p.c of all 1,114 staff are builders and researchers.

AI speaker enterprise is the only real space that has been making strides.

SK Telecom’s AI speaker NUGU runs forward of the pack with the weekly variety of energetic customers hitting 274,429 in Korea this month, in accordance with Nielsen Koreanclick that tracks app viewers traits.

Progress has been gradual in different areas. The corporate already inked sensible manufacturing facility contracts with greater than 100 purchasers, however many industrial websites have been gradual in incorporating disruptive installations over their busy and steady course of.

SK Telecom goals to make a distinction on two tasks on the AI entrance.

[Source: SK Telecom Co.]

It’s betting excessive on AI chip Sapeon. In 2020, the corporate launched Sapeon x220 that contains a 1.5-times quicker computing velocity than basic AI chips. The product is but to be democratized out there as potential clients nonetheless worth compatibility with peripheral gadgets, and effectivity versus energy consumption along with computing velocity. SK Telecom is working to win market penetration with a follow-up x330 mannequin outfitted with studying perform in addition to reasoning that requires a excessive degree of efficiency. The corporate not too long ago arrange a brand new American entity for Sapeon enterprise and this makes some predict that an M&A deal will observe like the corporate’s acquisition of reminiscence chip maker SK hynix in 2012.

SK Telecom can be planning to launch AI+VERSE (AI+metaverse), a brand new AI assistant designed to make life simpler by means of voice recognition and personalization obtainable within the metaverse interface.

By Na Hyun-joon and Minu Kim

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