AMD to Team Up With Saudi Arabia in $10 Billion Deal

<p align&equals;"left"><strong>SANTA CLARA&comma; CA and RIYADH&comma; Saudi Arabia<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <a title&equals;"AMD" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" data-uw-rm-brl&equals;"PR" data-uw-original-href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com" aria-label&equals;"AMD - open in a new tab" data-uw-rm-ext-link&equals;"">AMD<&sol;a> is partnering with <a title&equals;"HUMAIN" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;humain&period;ai&sol;en&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" data-uw-rm-brl&equals;"PR" data-uw-original-href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;humain&period;ai&sol;en&sol;" aria-label&equals;"HUMAIN - open in a new tab" data-uw-rm-ext-link&equals;"">HUMAIN<&sol;a>&comma; Saudi Arabia’s new AI enterprise&comma; to build the world’s most open&comma; scalable&comma; resilient&comma; and cost-efficient AI infrastructure&comma; that will power the future of global intelligence through a network of AMD-based AI computing centers stretching from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p data-uw-rm-sr&equals;"">As part of the agreement&comma; the parties will invest up to &dollar;10 billion to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity over the next five years&period; The AI superstructure built by AMD and HUMAIN will be open by design&comma; accessible at scale&comma; and optimized to power AI workloads across enterprise&comma; start-up and sovereign markets&period; HUMAIN will oversee end-to-end delivery&comma; including hyperscale data center&comma; sustainable power systems&comma; and global fiber interconnects&comma; and AMD will provide the full spectrum of the AMD AI compute portfolio and the AMD ROCm™ open software ecosystem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At AMD&comma; we have a bold vision to enable the future of AI everywhere &&num;8211&semi; bringing open&comma; high-performance computing to every developer&comma; AI start-up and enterprise around the world&comma;” said Dr&period; Lisa Su&comma; Chair and CEO&comma; AMD&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our investment with HUMAIN is a significant milestone in advancing global AI infrastructure&period; Together&comma; we are building a globally significant AI platform that delivers performance&comma; openness and reach at unprecedented levels&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is not just another infrastructure play &&num;8211&semi; it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators&comma;” said Tareq Amin&comma; CEO of HUMAIN&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are democratizing AI at the compute level&comma; ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination&comma; not by infrastructure&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With initial deployments already underway across key global regions&comma; the collaboration is on track to activate multi-exaflop capacity by early 2026&comma; supported by next-gen AI silicon&comma; modular data center zones&comma; and a developer-enablement focused software platform stack built around open standards and interoperability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Full-Spectrum AI at Scale<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The collaboration will deliver a market-defining value proposition by combining the Kingdom’s energy resources&comma; AI-ready workforce and forward-looking national AI policies with the AMD full-spectrum AI stack including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>AMD Instinct GPUs&comma; with industry-leading memory and inference performance&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>AMD EPYC CPUs&comma; offering world-class compute density and energy efficiency&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>AMD Pensando DPUs&comma; enabling scalable&comma; secure&comma; and programmable networking&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>AMD Ryzen AI&comma; bringing on-device AI compute to the edge&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><a title&equals;"AMD ROCm open software ecosystem" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;en&sol;products&sol;software&sol;rocm&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" data-uw-rm-brl&equals;"PR" data-uw-original-href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;en&sol;products&sol;software&sol;rocm&period;html" aria-label&equals;"AMD ROCm open software ecosystem - open in a new tab" data-uw-rm-ext-link&equals;"">AMD ROCm open software ecosystem<&sol;a> with built-in support for all AI frameworks &lpar;PyTorch&comma; SGLang&comma; etc&period;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;

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