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Microsoft Said it would be shipping on Monday NVIDIAThe most advanced artificial intelligence chips to the UAE as part of a deal approved by the US Commerce Department.
Redmond, Washington The software giant said the license approved in September under “stringent” security measures enables it to ship more than 60,000 Nvidia chips, including the California chipmaker’s advanced GB300 Grace Blackwell chips, for use in data centers in the Middle Eastern country.
This agreement appeared to contradict the President’s donald trumpThe comments, made in a “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday, said such chips would not be exported outside the U.S.
Asked by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell whether he would allow Nvidia to sell its most advanced chips to China, Trump said he would not.
“We’ll let them deal with Nvidia but not in terms of the most advanced,” Trump said. “The most advanced, we will not let anyone have them except the United States.”
The UAE’s ability to access chips is tied to its pledge to invest $1.4 trillion in US energy and AI-related projects, a sum given its annual GDP is about $540 billion.
united arab emirates Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba said in a statement earlier this year that the arrangement was “setting a new ‘gold standard’ for securing AI models, chips, data and access.”
Microsoft’s announcement on Monday was part of the company’s planned $15.2 billion investment in the technology in the UAE, which is said to have the highest per capita use of AI. Through a license approved under then-President Joe Biden, Microsoft had already stockpiled more than 21,000 of Nvidia’s graphics processor chips, known as GPUs, in the UAE.
“We are using these GPUs to provide access to advanced AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source providers, and Microsoft,” a company statement said.