{"id":999554,"date":"2026-03-27T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999554"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:25:08","slug":"south-korea-to-invest-166-million-in-ai-chip-startup-rebellions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/south-korea-to-invest-166-million-in-ai-chip-startup-rebellions\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to invest $166 million in AI chip startup Rebellions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s industry ministry on Tuesday said the Financial Services Commission&#8217;s advisory board approved a 250 billion won ($166 million) investment in a local artificial intelligence chip startup called Rebellions, part of \u200ca government-backed \u2060push \u2060to nurture a homegrown advanced semiconductor firm. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some details: South Korea&#8217;s Financial Services Commission advisoryboard, which evaluates investments in advanced strategicindustries, approved a 250 billion won direct investment intoRebellions, an AI chip startup. Rebellions, founded in \u20602020, designs \u200cneural processingunits (NPUs) that handle AI computations. The decision was made at a \u2060fund management committeemeeting for the state-led &#8220;National Growth Fund,&#8221; marking thefirst direct investment under the country&#8217;s &#8220;K-Nvidia&#8221;initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s industry ministry on Tuesday said the Financial Services Commission&#8217;s advisory board approved a 250 billion won ($166 million) investment in a local artificial intelligence chip startup called Rebellions, part of \u200ca government-backed \u2060push \u2060to nurture a homegrown advanced semiconductor firm. Here are some details: South Korea&#8217;s Financial Services Commission advisoryboard, which evaluates investments in advanced strategicindustries, approved a 250 billion won direct investment intoRebellions, an AI chip startup. Rebellions, founded in \u20602020, designs \u200cneural processingunits (NPUs) that handle AI computations. The decision was made at a \u2060fund management committeemeeting for the state-led &#8220;National Growth Fund,&#8221; marking thefirst direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}