AI Startup Upstage in Talks to Buy 10,000 AMD Chips in Korea

Korean AI startup Upstage is in discussions with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to buy 10,000 of its latest AI accelerators as part of an effort to bring large-scale compute into the country.

Upstage Chief Executive Officer Sung Kim said he discussed the procurement of AMD’s MI355 accelerators when he met with the US chipmaker’s CEO Lisa Su in Seoul last week. “We have a lot of Nvidia chips in Korea, but we want to diversify to other chips, including AMD’s,” Kim told Bloomberg Television on Monday.