AsianFin -- The U.S. government may ease export restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) chips from Nividia Corporation for a country within the Middle East as the leading AI chipmaker is securing orders with a customer in the region.

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The Trump administration is considering a deal that would allow the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to import more than 1 million advanced Nvidia chips, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The reported deal, if it is accurate, marks a substantial ease of the limits under former U.S. president Joe Biden’s AI chip regulations.

It was reported the deal would let the UAE import 500,000 of the most advanced chips on the market annually from now to 2027, and it still could change since it is now under negotiation. One of the fifth chip imports would be deployed for the Abu Dhabi AI firm G42, while the rest would go to U.S. companies building data centers in the nation, and OpenAI could be one of them, according to the report.

Neither the U.S. government nor Nvidia confirmed the report. The report came on the heels of Nvidia’s announcement of strategic partnership with another Gulf nation to sell its top Ai chips.

Earlier Tuesday, Nvidia and Humain, an AI subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), announced plans to build AI factories that will transform the country into a global leader in AI, GPU cloud computing and digital transformation to drive innovation and growth worldwide. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a state visit said Humain will invest in sovereign AI infrastructure powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s most advanced graphics processing units, or GPUs.

Humain is making a major investment to build AI factories in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts powered by several hundred thousand of Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs over the next five years. The first phase of deployment will be an 18,000 Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer with Nvidia InfiniBand networking. These hyperscale AI data centers will provide a secure foundational infrastructure for training and deploying sovereign AI models at scale, enabling industries across Saudi Arabia and worldwide to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.

Humain will also stand up an Nvidia Omniverse Cloud to simulate and test physical AI solutions with digital twins. Working with Humain, Nvidia will help strengthen Saudi Arabia’s computing ecosystem and train thousands of developers with the skills to solve complex challenges with accelerated computing and AI. The efforts will help achieve the Kingdom’s bold vision for growth and digital transformation.