AI NewsWaveMobilint's Homegrown NPU Flies on Nuri Rocket's Fifth Launch Secondary Satellite for Space Validation
Key points
- Two Mobilint NPU boards loaded onto the satellite
- Secondary satellite BEE-1012 on the fifth Nuri launch
- First satellite use of a domestically designed NPU
The neural processing unit (NPU) of the AI chip company Mobilint was carried aboard BEE-1012, a secondary satellite launched on the fifth Nuri rocket flight on Oct. 7. Two NPU boards based on the company's REGULUS were loaded.
The company said this is the first time an NPU that a South Korean company designed and developed itself has been loaded onto a real satellite. Techworld News reported it is the first case of performance validation in the space environment.