SAN JOSE, Calif. and
SEOUL, South Korea,
Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM)
today announced that SK Telecom has adopted Xilinx®
Alveo™ Datacenter Accelerator cards to power a real-time
AI-based physical intrusion and theft detection service. SK
Telecom's AI inference accelerator (AIX) implemented on Xilinx
Alveo cards provides efficient and accurate physical intrusion
detection using deep neural networks. ADT CAPS CO., LTD.,
South Korea's second largest
physical security company, licenses and commercially deploys the
physical intrusion detection service.
SK Telecom's AI-based physical intrusion detection service, T
viewTM, monitors hundreds of thousands of customers'
commercial and home camera systems in real-time and dispatches
security guards under physical intrusion circumstances. Processing
a large volume of data from thousands of cameras using deep neural
networks necessitates a powerful AI accelerator that can provide
enough throughput and accuracy.
T view uses SK Telecom's AI inference accelerator (AIX),
implemented on Xilinx Alveo U250 cards. Running on servers in SK
Telecom's data center, Alveo U250 cards have demonstrated high
throughput and accuracy in theft detection services. The cards
deliver lower detection latency and have achieved superior
throughput (frames per second) compared to leading GPUs and have
proven to be more cost effective. The improved throughput and
accuracy delivered by Alveo cards means more customers will have
access to real-time, AI-based security services, and a more
reliable protection against security threats.
"In the era of Artificial Intelligence where new services are
being deployed at unprecedented rates, we keep pursuing to innovate
our cloud systems to deliver more value to our customers with more
reliable and efficient services across diverse segments," said
Park Jin-hyo, Chief Technology
Officer and Head of ICT R&D Center of SK Telecom. "AIX in
collaboration with Xilinx represents one of our efforts to
streamline the cloud system for AI services."
Xilinx Alveo accelerator cards are designed to meet the
performance and flexibility needs of data center AI workloads,
providing 10X higher performance1 for AI-based speech
translation and over 3X higher throughout2 for video
analytics pipelines compared to GPUs. Built on the
Xilinx® 16nm UltraScale+™ architecture, Alveo
accelerators are adaptable to changing algorithms and acceleration
requirements, enabling domain specific architectures that optimize
performance for a range of workloads without changing hardware, and
while reducing overall cost of ownership.
The commercial deployment of Xilinx Alveo cards in SK Telecom's
data center for AI services builds upon the announcement and
success of SK Telecom's automated speech-recognition (ASR)
application powered by Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate NUGU, a
voice-activated assistant.
"This represents an important win in the commercial AI services
space and builds upon our collaboration with SK Telecom to
significantly improve theft detection and prevention, where our
leadership in real-time compute and analysis helps to promote
AI-based services to the South
Korea market," said Donna
Yasay, vice president of marketing, Data Center Group, at
Xilinx. "The adaptability, low latency and high throughput
delivered by our Alveo accelerators makes them ideally suited for
the visual AI inference workloads in the T view service."
Availability
SK Telecom's AIX accelerator,
implemented on the Alveo U250, and the T view service are currently
available in South Korea and are
expected to be available globally in fall 2020. The T view is also
expected to be commercially available as a rebranded solution from
other SK Telecom licensed companies.
About SK Telecom
SK Telecom is the largest mobile operator in Korea with nearly
50 percent of the market share. As the pioneer of all generations
of mobile networks, the company has commercialized the fifth
generation (5G) network on December 1,
2018 and announced the first 5G smartphone subscribers on
April 3, 2019. With its world's best
5G, SK Telecom is set to realize the Age of Hyper-Innovation by
transforming the way customers work, live and play. Building on its
strength in mobile services, the company is also creating
unprecedented value in diverse ICT-related markets including media,
security and commerce. For more information, please contact
skt_press@sk.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs, and the
ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in
the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent and connected
world of the future. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.
1. Transformer NMT (symbols/sec) benchmark of Nvidia Tesla
T4 GPU and Alveo U50
2. Full video analytics pipeline including decode and CNN
inference – compared to NVIDIA Tesla T4 vs Alveo U200 of 1080p60
video streams
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