Huawei Technologies is pushing to break Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market by targeting buyers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

The company has reportedly offered its Ascend 910B processors to potential customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand, aiming to sell several thousand units across the region.

Exact distribution figures by country have yet to be disclosed.

Huawei offered its AI system CloudMatrix 384.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand are heavily reliant on Nvidia processors. Recently, the two Middle Eastern countries agreed to multi-year purchases of over a million chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Sources familiar with the matter indicated that part of the chips agreed for the UAE will go to the AI firm G42, while the rest will go to American companies building data centers in the country.

In Saudi Arabia, Nvidia and AMD agreed to supply the AI company Humain for its data center project. Humain is still in the early phases of building its "AI factories," although it aims to use several hundred thousand Nvidia processors over the next five years. The first phase of the plan involves using 18,000 of Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell processors along with the InfiniBand network system.

Local AI startups in Thailand rely on Nvidia GPUs to train and test models. Although Trump's plans to restrict chip shipments, if implemented, could force the country to seek alternative manufacturers, including those from China.

Huawei is already trying to influence customers in the three nations with remote access to CloudMatrix 384. The CloudMatrix 384 system uses advanced Ascend 910C chips, but supply shortages mean the company is not ready to export them. However, the tech firm is selling its 910C processors to Chinese companies that cannot obtain advanced U.S. chips.