Overview
- The Commerce Department cleared exports equal to 35,000 Nvidia GB300-class processors for each company, totaling 70,000 chips under license.
- The allocations unlock near-term phases of flagship projects such as G42’s 1‑gigawatt Stargate UAE cluster and the broader 5‑gigawatt UAE–US AI Campus, though both firms say they will need substantially more capacity.
- Shipments are contingent on rigorous security and reporting requirements, with deployments governed by G42’s Regulated Technology Environment; officials emphasized these are permits under existing rules, not a blanket easing of controls.
- The deals reflect a regional pivot from Chinese vendors, following G42’s severing of Huawei ties and Humain’s pledge not to purchase Huawei equipment as Washington seeks to prevent diversion to Beijing.
- Separately, South Korea agreed to support Stargate with computing power and energy infrastructure, including work on a power grid for the project.