Nvidia Explores Rebellions Deal at Up to $2.3 Billion as AI Chip Push Widens
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 21
Nvidia Explores Rebellions Deal at Up to $2.3 Billion as AI Chip Push Widens
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 21
Summary
Early talks between Nvidia and South Korea’s Rebellions include a technical partnership, an investment or a full acquisition, with Jensen Huang meeting Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park in Santa Clara this week.
Rebellions, founded in 2020 and based in Bundang, has raised about $850 million from backers including SK Hynix, Samsung Ventures and Arm, and was most recently valued at roughly $2.3 billion.
The startup designs neural processing units for data centers focused on AI inference, a higher-volume workload than model training and one of the few areas where challengers are trying to dent Nvidia’s dominance.
Any deal remains preliminary and may not happen, while a larger acquisition could draw antitrust scrutiny as Nvidia continues a broader investment spree that included its unusual 2025 tie-up with Groq.