On the afternoon of the 2nd, Baek Jun-ho, CEO of FuriosaAI, speaks about the performance of the RNGD chip at the “Renegade 2026 Summit.” Jeon Hye-jin, Reporter, sunrise@donga.com
Baek Jun-ho, CEO of FuriosaAI, stated, “The core of future AI data center design lies in how much we can reduce repetitive inference costs.”
On the 2nd, FuriosaAI held the “Renegade 2026 Summit” in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and presented the performance of its semiconductor chip “Renegade (RNGD)” and its ecosystem expansion strategy to around 200 domestic and overseas partner companies. FuriosaAI, an AI semiconductor startup, successfully mass-produced 4,000 RNGD chips manufactured using TSMC’s 5-nanometer process in January this year.
RNGD is a neural processing unit (NPU) chip developed by FuriosaAI. Compared with graphics processing units (GPUs), which consume enormous amounts of power, it requires less power and is drawing attention as a next-generation AI chip. According to FuriosaAI, RNGD can simultaneously handle up to 7.4 times more users at the same power level compared with NVIDIA’s GPU “RTX Pro 6000.”
Major partners including LG AI Research, LG U+, Samsung SDS, Megazone Cloud, and Upstage participated in the event and shared real-world application cases of RNGD and directions for collaboration. Samsung SDS stated that it plans to offer a service enabling Renegade to be used in cloud form starting in July.
Jeon Hye-jin
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