Humain plans not to use Huawei chips to gain U.S. approval

Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain is intensifying efforts to secure ￰0￱ for advanced semiconductor exports, emphasizing its commitment to excluding Huawei technology from its ￰1￱ Tareq Amin has pledged that Humain will not incorporate Huawei’s Ascend chips into its infrastructure, aiming to alleviate ￰2￱ concerns and facilitate access to cutting-edge AI accelerators from companies like NVIDIA, AMD, and ￰3￱ that Humain will not buy equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co., Humain’s chief executive officer, Amin, said, “In our case, I will never do that,” He said in an interview at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s annual investment ￰4￱ some time, the ￰5￱ has imposed a series of restrictions on China’s tech industry, including blacklisting companies such as Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., which are seen as national ￰6￱ AI expansion seeks thousands of advanced chips by 2030 Founded in May, Humain is central to Saudi Arabia’s aspiration to be a global leader in ￰7￱ by the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), the company has announced developments linked to FII in recent weeks, including a $3 billion data center partnership with Blackstone ￰8￱ said that more potential investors may join the project, including BlackRock Inc., KKR & Co., and DigitalBridge.

A former Aramco Digital executive, Amin has his sights set on making Humain the world’s third-largest provider of computing capacity – behind only the ￰9￱ China. A significant barrier, though, is securing state-of-the-art AI accelerators from ￰10￱ such as Nvidia ￰11￱ Trump administration had lifted a previous export ban on chips to the Gulf. However, Saudi Arabia’s licenses have still not been approved, partly due to concerns that China could acquire the ￰12￱ contrasted the challenge with what he had done at Rakuten Group Inc., where he had sought ￰13￱ investment ￰14￱ said that he shared Humain’s security plans with ￰15￱ noted that, as CEO of a private entity, all he could do was put together what he called the defense package to show the security apparatus of ￰16￱ also stated that it is really remarkably different than anything else in this ￰17￱ has formed partnerships with Western tech firms, including Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and California-based startup ￰18￱ this week, the company said it would be the first customer for Qualcomm Inc.’s new chips, designed to compete with ￰19￱ these companies have applied for export licenses to sell to Saudi ￰20￱ startup plans to deploy roughly 18,000 AI chips in 2026, which Amin described as the “first phase,” with ambitions to expand to 400,000 chips by ￰21￱ expressed optimism about ongoing U.

S.-Saudi diplomatic talks regarding chip exports, citing a planned visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Humain’s chairman, to the ￰22￱ month. “We’re not far away,” Amin said. “You could derive a possible outcome in November.” PIF and Aramco join forces to boost Saudi Arabia’s AI leadership On related development, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Aramco announced on Tuesday that they had inked a non-binding term sheet for the oil giant to acquire a minority stake in ￰23￱ deal consolidates the AI assets and capabilities of the two firms under Humain, paving the way for its global growth and further solidifying Saudi Arabia’s status as a key hub for ￰24￱ to Amin H.

Nasser, Aramco President & CEO, Aramco’s planned investment in Humain is expected to strengthen its leadership in industrial AI applications and digital solutions, while accelerating the development of Saudi Arabia’s AI infrastructure and driving national ￰25￱ continued to say that Aramco is well-positioned to capitalize on the opportunities arising from the rising energy demand linked to AI growth, use state-of-the-art techniques to enhance efficiency, reduce emissions, and maintain its competitive edge as one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals ￰26￱ Bybit now and claim a $50 bonus in minutes