Intel Forms AI Alliance With 23 Korean Companies
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Intel announced the official launch of the K-AI Full Stack Alliance on Nov. 11 at the Intel AI Summit Seoul 2026, held at COEX in Seoul, partnering with 23 South Korean companies to build AI infrastructure tailored to the Korean market across hardware, software and AI services, targeting sovereign AI and physical AI markets and centered on domestically manufactured servers powered by Intel chips. Initial participants include KTNF, Dnotitia, Panmnesia, Upstage, Nota AI, DEEPX, FuriosaAI and Exina. Intel Korea will also sign an MOU with Seoul AI Hub to support domestic AI startups. At the event Intel stated it is mass-producing Clearwater Forest, a Xeon server processor with up to 288 high-density, energy-efficient E-cores; it plans to launch Diamond Rapids, with up to 256 high-performance P-cores, next year; and it unveiled a physical chip of its next-generation data center inference accelerator, the Intel GPU D-Series, delivering up to 26,200 TFLOPS of FP4 performance at 350 watts. Compared with the Nvidia RTX 6000 Pro, Intel demonstrated 30% lower latency on Gemma models, 2.2 times higher AI agent performance, and up to 5.9 times higher financial simulation performance (Intel GPU D270).
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Source: The Elec · 11/12/2026 · View original source
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