Abu Dhabi’s G42 eyes chip options beyond Nvidia

Abu Dhabi’s G42 eyes chip options beyond Nvidia

The ScoopAbu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet — to become tenants at the planned UAE–US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia, a person with direct knowledge of the talks told Semafor.AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI are among those in discussions, with Google the furthest along in negotiations to offtake computing capacity, the person sai…

UAE’s G42 seeks to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia for AI campus - Cryptopolitan

UAE-backed technology firm G42 is exploring other AI chip suppliers beyond Nvidia to expand its semiconductor supply options. The company already initiated negotiations with AMD, Cerebras Systems, and Qualcomm to provide the AI chips that will power its AI campus.  G42 announced plans to build an AI data center campus with a 5 gigawatt capacity in a collaboration between the UAE and the U.S. The announcement came during President Donald Trump’s …

G42 broadens chip suppliers for UAE-US AI campus

Considering a roster of chipmakers such as AMD, Cerebras Systems, and Qualcomm. G42 has opened negotiations with several high-profile American tech names such as AWS, Microsoft, Meta, and Elon Musk’s xAI, with Google reportedly being the closest to finalising an arrangement. The Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 is taking significant steps to broaden its sources of AI chips for its ambitious UAE-US Artificial Intelligence campus. According …

Source: G42 is talking to AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia

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Abu Dhabi-backed G42 aims to diversify chip suppliers for AI campus, Semafor reports

The group is still negotiating with major American technology firms including Amazon's AWS cloud, Microsoft, Meta and Elon Musk's xAI to become tenants at the data center, with Google being the furthest along in negotiations, according to the report