DEEPX wins Hong Dae-yong Award for AI accelerator patent
The Korean AI chip firm received the 2026 Patent Technology Award for a pipeline-structured neural-network acceleration patent with 606 filings to date.
DEEPX announced on November 11, 2026 that it received the Hong Dae-yong Award at the 2026 Patent Technology Award for its patent on a computation acceleration device for artificial neural networks with a pipeline structure (registered patent No. 10-2263598), according to datanet.co.kr.
The company said the awarded technology reduces the storage and movement of intermediate data during AI computation, improving processing speed and power efficiency.
In FPGA-based experiments, the related design delivered 12 times higher computation performance than a comparison design and cut the memory needed to store intermediate data to about 1/340 at a batch size of 1024, DEEPX said.
DEEPX currently holds 606 filed patents and 186 registrations, including 95 registered in the United States and 67 in South Korea.
From research lineage to mass production
The company was founded in 2018 by CEO Kim Nok-won, who named it after the Deep Learning Accelerator research that inspired it. The awarded technology was filed as a patent in 2018 and registered in 2021.
After starting mass production of its first-generation AI semiconductor DX-M1 last year, DEEPX secured 88 purchase orders from about 10 countries in roughly one year.
Quick answers
What is the patent number behind DEEPX's Hong Dae-yong Award?
The award recognised registered patent No. 10-2263598, covering a computation acceleration device for artificial neural networks with a pipeline structure.
How many patents does DEEPX hold?
DEEPX has filed 606 patents and registered 186 of them, with 95 registered in the United States and 67 in South Korea.
Which product has DEEPX put into mass production?
The company began mass production of its first-generation AI semiconductor, DX-M1, last year.