On May 13 local time, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the giant of AI chips, announced that Nvidia would sell more than 18,000 of its latest AI chips to Saudi Humain. Huang stated that cutting-edge Blackwell chips will be used to build data centers in Saudi Arabia with a total capacity of 500 megawatts. ——Huang made this statement at the Saudi-US Investment Forum held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
According to reports from CNBC, Humain is owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and is dedicated to developing artificial intelligence models and building data center infrastructure. Humain plans to deploy "hundreds of thousands" of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs).
On the same day, American chip giant Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) also said it would supply chips to Humain to participate in the construction of Saudi Arabia's 500-megawatt AI data center. AMD said that Humain has committed $10 billion to the project.
High-end chips have no taboos in Saudi Arabia.
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