Sapion supports high-quality AI media services in daily life through AI computing technology.

Sapion showcased its high-performance, high-efficiency AI semiconductor applied to SKT Supernova at the '2022 SK Tech Summit' held by SK Group at the Walkerhill Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the 8th and 9th.

Sapion claimed that by applying deep learning technology to SKT's 'Supernova', it can reduce processing time and costs and provide high-quality video, audio, and image services.

SKT's 'SUPERNOVA' is an AI and deep learning-based media quality enhancement solution that uses AI to restore media data, such as video, images, and audio, to the level of the original.

Sapion is an AI semiconductor designed to accelerate AI inference in data centers, maximizing performance for large-scale AI inference in data centers by optimizing precision for inference computations compared to GPUs. It provides integrated solutions in the form of not only chips but also IP, cards, servers, and cloud services.

An SKT official stated, “When using Sapion in Supernova to restore old videos to high resolution and high quality, performance can be improved by 1.6 times compared to GPUs.”

He also added, “We can generate high-quality video that can be obtained through 128 shots using only 4 shots. This reduces the time required to acquire actual video quality by 65%.” SKT and Sapion demonstrated a service at the event booth that converts users' old photos into modern-looking ones.

Meanwhile, the 'SKT Tech Summit' was the first offline-centered event held since COVID-19, with 17 SK Group companies participating to showcase 127 technologies across 10 fields, including AI, semiconductors, cloud, and security.