Trump's "Bargaining Tool": NVIDIA will sell 18,000 latest AI chips to Saudi Arabia

Zhitong
2025.05.13 14:53

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced on Tuesday that NVIDIA will sell over 18,000 of its latest artificial intelligence chips to Saudi company Humain. According to a Saudi-U.S. joint statement, NVIDIA's advanced Blackwell chips will be used in a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia. NVIDIA stated that its initial deployment will utilize its GB300 Blackwell chips, which are among NVIDIA's most advanced artificial intelligence chips and were officially announced earlier this year. Tuesday's statement highlighted the importance of NVIDIA chips as a bargaining tool for the Trump administration, as countries around the world are racing to purchase these chips for training and deploying advanced artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT