Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region
Amid US restrictions curbing the export of certain high-end AI accelerators to much of the Middle East, Silicon Valley's Nvidia has reached an agreement to furnish Qatari telecom Ooredoo's datacenters with"thousands" of GPUs.
The AI accelerators in question – which may or may not be export limited – will not only be deployed in Ooredoo's datacenters. They'll be made available to startups across Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, and the Maldives, the Mid-Eastern biz announced in a, group CEO Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo predicted the deal would give Ooredoo an 18- to 24-month lead over its competitors in the region.
As mentioned, the deal makes no mention of Nvidia securing the necessary licenses to sell its highest-end cards in the region, nor whether it even needs to – only top-end kit is restricted, and the accelerator champ could be flogging off lower-end, non-restricted gear to the Qataris.its export controls on the sale of AI hardware to much of the Middle East, over fears China was using the region as a proxy to obtain high-end accelerators.
Thus, there's no guarantee that Ooredoo or others in the region will be getting their hands on Nvidia's full-fat GPUs. In response to US export controls, Nvidia hasAs such, it's entirely possible that rather than obtaining a license to export its flagship accelerators, Nvidia instead will ship systems based around its H20 SXM, L20 or L2 lines – which aren't subject to US sanctions.
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