Huawei Seeks AI Chip Clients in Middle East, Southeast Asia (1)

Huawei Technologies Co. is trying to export small quantities of AI chips to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, an effort to establish a foothold in markets dominated by Nvidia Corp. despite ongoing manufacturing challenges.

The hardware giant — China’s strongest competitor to leading US chipmakers — has reached out to potential customers in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Thailand about purchasing its older-generation Ascend 910B processors, according to people familiar with the matter. The two Gulf nations recently struck deals for well over a million Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips over several years. Thailand’s artificial ...