G42 WELCOMES US AUTHORISATION TO EXPORT ADVANCED AI SEMICONDUCTORS

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- G42 has welcomed the White House’s decision to authorise the export of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors to the company, marking a key shift from planning to deployment within the United Arab Emirates (UAE)–United States (US) AI corridor.

According to a statement, G42 said the move reflects growing bilateral trust and strengthens joint efforts to build secure and scalable AI infrastructure.

G42 Group Chief Executive Officer, Peng Xiao said the announcement marks a defining moment for G42 and its partners, and G42 would mirror its UAE-based infrastructure investments in the US to maintain “symmetry and trust at every layer”.

Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council Secretary General, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak said the decision affirms the depth of trust that underpins the UAE–US relationship.

G42 noted that the approval will accelerate major UAE-based projects, including Stargate UAE, a one-gigawatt AI compute cluster it is developing for OpenAI with support from Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA and SoftBank Group.

Stargate UAE forms part of the broader UAE–US AI Campus, a five-gigawatt hub designed to deliver regional compute capacity and low-latency inferencing. The export authorisation also supports expanding collaboration with US hyperscalers and chipmakers such as Microsoft, AMD, Qualcomm and Cerebras.

The licensing decision is built on a shared operating framework shaped through close US–UAE cooperation to ensure the secure global distribution of American technology.

The deployment of the chips will be governed by the Regulated Technology Environment (RTE), a compliance framework created by G42 and approved under US Department of Commerce and Bureau of Industry and Security guidelines.

G42’s operational AI infrastructure currently includes three of the world’s Top500 supercomputers, with two ranked among the top three in the region, and its Maximus-01 system in New York ranked 20th globally.

The company’s AI infrastructure footprint now spans Abu Dhabi, France and multiple US locations, including California, Minnesota, Texas and New York.

-- BERNAMA