SKAI Expands AI Infrastructure Business Into Shipbuilding, Defense, and Manufacturing
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SKAI set AI infrastructure as a new growth engine, anticipating rising demand for GPU servers and high-performance workstations amid AI model advancement and the spread of physical AI.
The company launched its AI Infrastructure Division in 2023 and recorded cumulative sales of KRW 50.8 billion over the three years since its launch.
The AI Infrastructure Division has expanded into shipbuilding, defense, manufacturing, and broadcasting, supplying infrastructure such as servers, workstations, and AI PCs.
SKAI is focusing on expected growth in demand for GPU servers and high-performance workstations amid prospects for more advanced AI models and the spread of physical AI, and has set its AI infrastructure business as a new growth engine. SKAI is pursuing the expansion of its 'AI full stack' business by linking data, AI technology, and computing infrastructure.
Accordingly, SKAI launched its AI Infrastructure Division in 2023 and has been expanding its supply coverage by industry and its customer base around the division. The AI Infrastructure Division recorded cumulative sales of KRW 50.8 billion over the three years since its launch.
The AI Infrastructure Division is expanding its business around AI workstations, with target industries including shipbuilding, defense, manufacturing, and broadcasting. In the process, it is broadening its business scope by responding to industry-specific demand and winning and supplying individual projects.
In the shipbuilding sector, it supplied ultra-compact workstation hardware for certification of vessels equipped with autonomous operation and navigation systems, and recently won a project to introduce redundant DB servers. In the defense sector, it is supplying hardware tailored to secure environments, while also supplying design and AI workstations.
In manufacturing, SKAI has supported the establishment of on-site computing environments based on edge AI workstations and AI PCs, and in broadcasting, it supplied servers and workstations for an AI-only TV studio at the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS). Through this, it has accumulated industry-specific supply experience based on infrastructure offerings such as servers, workstations, and AI PCs.
SKAI is an official certified partner and Tier-1 reseller in Lenovo's global partner program, 'Lenovo 360.' Based on this status, it is strengthening its hardware procurement and deployment capabilities by supplying infrastructure such as devices, servers, and storage tailored to customer environments.
The company plans to expand its appliance-style business model combining its own solutions with hardware. It is also developing its business in a direction that connects an integrated framework of data, AI software, GPUs, and computing infrastructure beyond simple equipment supply.
Shin Jae-hyeok, CEO of SKAI, said that as AI becomes more advanced, competition is expanding beyond software to implementation and acceleration infrastructure. He added that the company plans to strengthen its AI full-stack competitiveness by linking data, software, synthetic data, GPUs, and data infrastructure into a single value chain.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407973
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