Nvidia Strikes Deal To Power Qatari Telecom Company's Data Centers In First Large-Scale Deployment In Middle East
Nvidia Strikes Deal To Power Qatari Telecom Company's Data Centers In First Large-Scale Deployment In Middle East
The telecom company is leveraging Nvidia's advanced accelerated computing platform to help enable the AI revolution in the region. This platform will benefit governments, enterprises, and startups in Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, and the Maldives as they get access to Nvidia's latest full-stack AI platform, it said.Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares may have slackened in the past couple of sessions but fundamentally, the company is going strong. A new report said on Sunday that the Jensen Huang-led company may have made further inroads in the Middle East.
Nvidia公司（納斯達克股票代碼：NVDA）的股價可能在過去幾個交易日有所鬆動，但從基本面上看，該公司表現強勁。一份新的報告稱，該由Jensen Huang領導的公司可能在中東地區取得更多進展。
What Happened: Nvidia has clinched a deal to provide artificial intelligence technology to data centers owned by Ooredoo, a Qatari telecoms group, in five Middle Eastern countries, a release from the latter showed. Ooredoo said it is becoming a Nvidia Cloud Partner as a part of its strategy to become the leading digital infrastructure provider in the Middle East and North Africa.
Nvidia已經達成協議，爲卡塔爾電信集團Ooredoo在中東地區的五個國家擁有的數據中心提供人工智能技術。 Ooredoo發佈的一份聲明中顯示，該公司表示，它正在成爲Nvidia Cloud Partner的一部分，作爲成爲中東和北非領先的數字基礎設施提供商戰略的一部分。
The deal was signed on the sidelines of the TM Forum in Copenhagen on June 19.
該協議簽署於6月19日在哥本哈根的TM Forum期間。
The telecom company is leveraging Nvidia's advanced accelerated computing platform to help enable the AI revolution in the region. This platform will benefit governments, enterprises, and startups in Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, and the Maldives as they get access to Nvidia's latest full-stack AI platform, it said.
該電信公司正在利用Nvidia的先進加速計算平台，以促進該地區的人工智能革命。該平台將使卡塔爾，阿爾及利亞，突尼斯，阿曼，科威特和馬爾代夫的政府，企業和初創公司獲得Nvidia的最新全套AI平台。
Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, Group CEO of Ooredoo, said, "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 digitalization and innovation as the leading digital infrastructure provider in the region.
Ooredoo的集團首席執行官Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo表示：“通過實施NVIDIA的全套加速計算和生成AI平台，Ooredoo配備了處於MENA地區人工智能革命的前沿，並作爲該地區領先的數字基礎設施提供商推動數字化和創新。
Why It's Important: Nvidia has been at the forefront of the AI technology drive in the Middle East. The latest agreement with Ooredoo marked the company's first large-scale launch in the region and has come despite U.S. export curbs to stop China from accessing high-performance U.S. chips from Middle Eastern countries, Reuters reported.
重要性：Nvidia一直是中東地區人工智能技術推動的前沿。路透社報道稱，與Ooredoo的最新協議標誌着該公司在該地區的首次大規模推出，儘管美國出口限制阻止中國從中東國家獲取高性能美國芯片。
The companies did not disclose the value of the deal and the type of technology that would be installed in the data centers, the report said.
雙方未披露協議價值和將在數據中心中安裝的技術類型，該報告稱。
Fakhroo reportedly told Reuters that the company was investing $1 billion to boost its regional data center capacity by 20-25 additional megawatts on top of the 40 megawatts it currently has. The capacity will likely be tripled by the end of the decade, he added.
據報道，Fakhroo告訴路透社，該公司正在投資10億美元，以在40兆瓦容量的基礎上增加20-25兆瓦的區域數據中心容量。他還補充說，該容量到本世紀末可能會增加到三倍。
Nvidia ended Friday's session down 3.22% at $126.57, according to Benzinga Pro data. The stock has gained a whopping 156% so far this year.
根據Benzinga Pro的數據，Nvidia於週五收盤時下跌3.22％，報126.57美元。該股票今年迄今已經大漲了156％。
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