Kakao Enterprise Advances Cloud Business with US Semiconductor Company 'Xilinx'

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Kakao Enterprise is strengthening its cloud business by partnering with Xilinx, which recently merged with the U.S. semiconductor company AMD.

On the 18th, Kakao Enterprise announced that it will build a cloud business based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) acceleration technology in collaboration with Xilinx. Xilinx is a leading company that holds more than 50% of the FPGA market.

FPGA is a type of programmable semiconductor that allows software to be easily reconfigured. It is widely used in cloud and data centers because it enables service providers to quickly respond to new applications and protocols according to customer demands without replacing hardware.

Kakao Enterprise's cloud service team, 'Kakao i Cloud,' plans to closely cooperate with Xilinx's solution architecture group to offer a variety of cloud product lines. The cloud case applying Xilinx's 'SmartNIC U25N' is the first of its kind globally by Kakao Enterprise's 'Kakao i Cloud.'

It is expected to reduce cloud CPU usage by more than 50% while increasing application performance by up to 600%. Additionally, using virtual servers enhanced with Xilinx's SmartNIC can dramatically reduce power consumption and operating costs by more than twice compared to existing systems.

Kakao Enterprise plans to continuously advance its cloud services using Xilinx's 'SmartNIC' and 'SmartSSD' in the future.

Baek Sang-yeop, CEO of Kakao Enterprise, stated, “We aim to strengthen our cloud business competitiveness through technological cooperation between the two companies. We expect Kakao i Cloud to be effectively used by a wide range of customers, especially in rapidly growing sectors such as entertainment, metaverse, and blockchain. By combining the technology and know-how of Kakao Enterprise and Xilinx, we will create successful collaboration cases.”

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