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Xilinx FPGAs for AI Acceleration, Achieves 5X Performance/16X Performance-per-watt over

2018-08-15 | Return



SAN JOSE, Calif. and SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and SK Telecom (SKT) today jointly announced that SKT has deployed Xilinx® FPGAs as their artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators in its data center. The Xilinx® Kintex®UltraScale™ FPGAs are now running SKT's automatic speech-recognition (ASR) application to accelerate NUGU, its voice-activated assistant. SKT achieved up to five times higher performance in ASR applications when compared to GPUs, and more importantly, 16 times better performance-per-watt. This is the first commercial adoption of FPGA accelerators in the AI domain for large-scale data centers in South Korea.

The FPGA-based accelerator lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) of ASR application servers by populating existing CPU-only servers with efficient Xilinx FPGA add-in cards. The ASR servers easily and simply accelerate multiple voice service channels with Xilinx FPGA cards in their empty slots. One FPGA card provides more than five times the performance of a single server, resulting in substantial cost savings. This performance and TCO advantage benefits SK Telecom and its customers.

sourcehttp://www.xilinx.com/