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（纳斯达克股票代码：NVDA）的股价可能在过去几个交易日有所松动，但从基本面上看，该公司表现强劲。一份新的报告称，该由Jensen Huang领导的公司可能在中东地区取得更多进展。
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已经达成协议，为卡塔尔电信集团Ooredoo在中东地区的五个国家拥有的数据中心提供人工智能技术。 Ooredoo发布的一份声明中显示，该公司表示，它正在成为Nvidia Cloud Partner的一部分，作为成为中东和北非领先的数字基础设施提供商战略的一部分。
The deal was signed on the sidelines of the TM Forum in Copenhagen on June 19.
该协议签署于6月19日在哥本哈根的TM Forum期间。
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.
该电信公司正在利用Nvidia的先进加速计算平台，以促进该地区的人工智能革命。该平台将使卡塔尔，阿尔及利亚，突尼斯，阿曼，科威特和马尔代夫的政府，企业和初创公司获得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的集团首席执行官Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo表示：“通过实施NVIDIA的全套加速计算和生成AI平台，Ooredoo配备了处于MENA地区人工智能革命的前沿，并作为该地区领先的数字基础设施提供商推动数字化和创新。
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一直是中东地区人工智能技术推动的前沿。路透社报道称，与Ooredoo的最新协议标志着该公司在该地区的首次大规模推出，尽管美国出口限制阻止中国从中东国家获取高性能美国芯片。
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.
双方未披露协议价值和将在数据中心中安装的技术类型，该报告称。
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.
据报道，Fakhroo告诉路透社，该公司正在投资10亿美元，以在40兆瓦容量的基础上增加20-25兆瓦的区域数据中心容量。他还补充说，该容量到本世纪末可能会增加到三倍。
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.
根据Benzinga Pro的数据，Nvidia于周五收盘时下跌3.22％，报126.57美元。该股票今年迄今已经大涨了156％。
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