Vietnam’s FPT to receive first large-scale shipment of more than 1,000 Nvidia AI chips in December

[HO CHI MINH CITY] Vietnam’s software and telecommunications giant FPT is set to receive the first large-scale shipment of Nvidia chips this December to begin providing artificial intelligence (AI) cloud services. 

This comes after the home-grown tech champion completed the necessary authorisation procedures with the US authorities, which had given a ruling last November that restricted China’s access to critical US technologies and imposed additional licensing requirements for exports of Nvidia chips to some countries, including Vietnam.

Le Hong Viet, chief executive of FPT Smart Cloud, told The Business Times that the first batch of 127 Nvidia HGX H100 server systems, which are subject to the United States’ export-control rule, is set to arrive in Vietnam next month to equip FPT’s AI facilities in the South-east Asian country.