{"id":441698,"date":"2025-11-09T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/?p=441698"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:32:33","slug":"the-uae-and-saudi-arabia-are-at-the-forefront-of-building-ai-ready-infrastructure-an-interview-with-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/the-uae-and-saudi-arabia-are-at-the-forefront-of-building-ai-ready-infrastructure-an-interview-with-amd\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE and Saudi Arabia Are at the Forefront of Building AI-Ready Infrastructure | An Interview with AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In this conversation, Mohammed Jaghoub, Senior Manager for Field Application Engineers across the Middle East and Africa at AMD, discusses the region\u2019s accelerating transformation toward artificial intelligence and the UAE and Saudi Arabia\u2019s leading roles in developing advanced digital infrastructure and data center ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jaghoub explains how AMD supports organizations throughout their AI journey \u2014 from pilot projects to production \u2014 focusing on energy efficiency and the balance between CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to optimize performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also highlights the growing challenge of power demand in data centers, the importance of efficient computing, and how regional initiatives are rapidly closing the technical skills gap through education and innovation. A perspective that places the Middle East at the center of the global AI revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this conversation, Mohammed Jaghoub, Senior Manager for Field Application Engineers across the Middle East and Africa at AMD, discusses the region\u2019s accelerating transformation toward artificial intelligence and the UAE and Saudi Arabia\u2019s leading roles in developing advanced digital infrastructure and data center ecosystems. Jaghoub explains how AMD supports organizations throughout their AI journey \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":441699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29345,29339],"tags":[29393,29387],"audience-intent":[],"content-types":[],"country":[],"entity":[],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-441698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-interviews","category-videos","tag-gitex-global-2025","tag-video-interviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"audience-intent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-intent?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"content-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-types?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=441698"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=441698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}