Samsung SDS said on the 20th that it launched NPUaaS (NPU subscription service) based on FuriosaAI's second-generation Neural Processing Unit (NPU), RNGD.
FuriosaAI's RNGD, mounted on Samsung SDS's SCP (Samsung Cloud Platform), is a domestically developed NPU specialized for artificial intelligence (AI) inference. At the stage of applying already trained AI models to actual services to handle answer generation, document analysis, and image classification, it features superior power efficiency and cost-effectiveness compared with a graphics processing unit (GPU).
Samsung SDS's NPUaaS customers can use NPU servers on a subscription basis through SCP. Depending on the demand and data scale of corporations, they can freely choose the desired number of NPUs in units of 1, 2, 4, or 8, allowing use tailored to the scale of AI services from startups to large corporations. In addition, it can be linked with various SCP products such as high-performance storage, compute, and high-speed networks.
In particular, this NPUaaS will be provided in Samsung SDS's sovereign cloud environment, enabling even public-sector customers with strict security regulations to use it with confidence.
With this NPUaaS launch, Samsung SDS has expanded beyond its existing GPUaaS (GPU subscription service) to include NPU-based compute resources. The company said, "Through this, we expect to expand customers' choices for AI infrastructure and reach a major turning point in building sovereign AI."
Lee Ho-jun, head of cloud services business at Samsung SDS (executive vice president), said, "This NPUaaS launch is meaningful not just because it introduces a new cloud product, but because it allows customers to use high-performance AI technology more flexibly and cost-efficiently," and added, "We will diversify SCP-based products and continue to lead the cloud AI technology ecosystem."