The Gulf's semiconductor ambitions
Saudi Arabia's Alat targets $100 billion by 2030 with SoftBank as a cornerstone investor, while the UAE pairs Cerebras supercomputing with chip-design bets. How real are Gulf chips?
Tech & AI
Gulf technology agendas: Vision 2030 projects, startups, chips and AI adoption.
Which cloud regions operate in Saudi Arabia
Google Cloud opened Dammam in 2023, Oracle has invested over a billion dollars, Microsoft's availability zones are due and AWS lands a $5.3 billion region in December 2026.
What is the UAE's AI strategy
The UAE appointed the world's first AI minister in 2017 and targets AED 230 billion of annual AI contribution to GDP by 2030; the Stargate campus is the strategy's biggest artifact.
What is G42, Abu Dhabi's AI group
Founded in 2018, G42 spans sovereign AI, health, space and geospatial businesses, took Microsoft's $1.5 billion in 2024, and anchors the UAE side of the Stargate campus.
HUMAIN signs first US-based customer deal with Turing
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN and Turing announced a partnership on March 26, 2026 described as HUMAIN's first US-based customer deal, extending the Saudi AI company's international reach.
e& brings 5G security upgrade to MWC Barcelona
At MWC 2026, March 2-5, e& announced the selection of BroadForward's security platform for 5G roaming, the UAE operator's latest step in a security-first network strategy.