Nvidia extends business to Middle East, partners Qatari telecom giant

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The world’s top producer of AI chips, Nvidia, partners with Ooredoo, the largest telecom company in Qatar.

The partnership brings the company into the Middle East and North Africa markets.

A statement by Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President of Telecom, stated this on Sunday, with the company’s data centres in Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, and the Maldives providing Nvidia’s AI and HPC GPUs.

Indeed, Ooredoo has a major competitive advantage in implementing generative AI applications because they are the only firm in the region providing such services.

Although, the partnership’s conditions were not revealed, but it represents Nvidia’s first significant regional expansion and gives governments and local companies direct access to the company’s in-demand AI and graphics processing technologies.

According to the CEO of Ooredoo, Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, the deal will give clients access to services that their rivals might not have for an additional 18 to 24 months.

“By providing NVIDIA’s full-stack AI computing platform to customers, Ooredoo will help make it easier for their customers to deploy generative AI applications and services,” Vasishta stated.

Also, Fakhroo said Ooredoo intends to nearly treble its present 40-megawatt capacity by the end of the decade and is investing $1 billion to increase it by an additional 20 to 25 megawatts.

He added that, “Implementing NVIDIA’s full-stack platform for accelerated computing and generative AI, Ooredoo is equipped to be at the forefront of the AI revolution in MENA, driving digitalisation and innovation as the leading digital infrastructure provider in the region.”

Earlier report stated that Cisco has established an all-in-one AI data centre solution co-developed with Nvidia that gives startups the server, storage, networking hardware, and AI software they need to implement generative AI and other AI applications on its platform.