SK Telecom deploys Xilinx FPGAs for AI – Fuad Abazovic – Medium

SK Telecom is definitely a forward looking companies and will be one of the first companies to trial and start 5G. It is not wasting time when it comes to speech recognition and AI as SK Telecom has announced the first commercial adoption of FPGA accelerators from Xilinx in the AI domain for large scale data centers in South Korea. These two companies made some big claims over the efficiency of the FPGA based solution. SK Telecom has chosen the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs as its artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators in its data center. Xilinx FPGA will take on the responsible task of running SKT's automatic speech-recognition (ASR) application to accelerate Nugu, SKT's voice-activated assistant.