Kim Tae-hoon, Executive Vice President of LG CNS AI Cloud Business Unit (right), and Baek Jun-ho, CEO of FuriosaAI, pose for a commemorative photo at the signing ceremony for a business agreement to expand cooperation in the AI infrastructure business. Provided by LG CNS
LG CNS is joining forces with artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company FuriosaAI to target the public artificial intelligence transformation (AX) market.
LG CNS signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with FuriosaAI at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, to “expand cooperation in the AI infrastructure business.” FuriosaAI is an AI semiconductor company that develops neural processing units (NPUs), semiconductors specialized for AI computation. FuriosaAI’s second-generation NPU “Renegade (RNGD)” is characterized by lower power consumption compared with graphics processing units (GPUs) used for large-scale computation. LG CNS and FuriosaAI are currently participating together in the LG AI Research consortium for the government-led “independent AI foundation model” project.
As the first step of the cooperation, LG CNS plans to apply FuriosaAI’s NPU to “AgenticWorks,” its self-developed enterprise agentic AI platform. In addition, the two companies will conduct proof-of-concept for NPU-based GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) performance optimization technology. GPUaaS is a service that virtualizes GPUs, enabling the use of high-performance computing environments without purchasing physical hardware. The company stated, “By applying NPUs to all stages, including AI training, AI service operation, and inference, we will enhance power efficiency and cost competitiveness.”
Choi Ji-won
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