SK Telecom, to its AI service
This is the third time using Xilinx products
Alveo U250 Accelerator Card Installed in SKT AIX


To realize AI-based physical intrusion detection, millions of commercial and residential camera systems must be monitored in real time. To achieve this, a fast and accurate AI accelerator is required.

Xilinx held a press conference on the 1st and announced that its data center accelerator cards are being used in SK Telecom's intrusion detection service, 'T view'.

This is the third time SK Telecom has used Xilinx's FPGA-based accelerator cards in its services, following the Automated Speech-Recognition (ASR)-based AI speaker NUGU and the call center SST solution.

Xilinx's 'Alveo U250' data center accelerator card is installed in SK Telecom's AI inference accelerator, 'AIX (AI Inference Accelerator),' and runs on SK Telecom's data center servers.

Park Jin-hyo, Head of SK Telecom’s ICT Technology Center, said, “SK Telecom, through innovation in cloud systems “We will develop stable and efficient AI-based services across various sectors,” he said. “The development of AIX is one of our efforts to provide high-quality, high-performance cloud-based AI services, and we are continuing our collaboration with Xilinx to this end.”

In the theft detection service demo, AIX processed 980 frames of video data per second when using a GPU, whereas it processed 1,634 frames of video data per second when using an Alveo U250 card.

Alveo accelerator cards based on Xilinx's 16nm 'UltraScale+' architecture are designed to meet the performance and flexibility required for data center AI workloads.

In addition, it provides a domain-specific architecture that can adapt to changing algorithms and acceleration requirements, optimize performance across various workloads, and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) without changing hardware.

Adam Scraba, Director of Product Marketing for Data Centers at Xilinx, stated, “The Alveo platform is an ideal solution for real-time AI services as it enables the acceleration of various workloads as a single platform,” adding, “Going forward, SK Telecom’s AIX platform will utilize Xilinx’s ‘Vitis’ integrated developer environment and ‘Versal &"It will be further strengthened through the ACAP architecture," they stated.

Meanwhile, Tiview, which reduces detection latency to 10ms using 5G MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) and reduces false positives using FPGA-based AI accelerators, is licensed by ADT Caps and deployed for commercial use.