Aljammaz Technologies will distribute Groq’s complete portfolio of AI inference solutions across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East
Groq and Aljammaz Technologies have partnered to bring Groq’s Language Processing Unit (LPU) technology to enterprises, governments, and developers across the MENA region. The collaboration will debut at GITEX Global 2025, taking place from October 13–17 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
The partnership comes as organizations shift from AI experimentation to real-world deployment, where speed, cost, and energy efficiency are key challenges. Groq’s purpose-built LPU technology delivers ultra-fast, energy-efficient AI inference, enabling real-time applications that were once impossible with traditional GPU systems
The partnership addresses a critical inflection point in AI adoption: as organizations move from experimentation to production deployment, inference speed, cost, and energy efficiency have emerged as defining constraints. Groq’s LPU technology—purpose-built for AI inference rather than adapted from graphics processing—enables a new class of real-time AI applications that were previously impractical with traditional GPU architectures.
“The Middle East is experiencing unprecedented demand for AI solutions across every sector, from financial services to healthcare to smart city initiatives,” said Fahad AlTurief, VP and MENAT Managing Director at Groq. “Aljammaz Technologies brings unmatched regional expertise and channel reach. Together, we’re positioned to help organizations throughout MENAT harness AI’s full potential without the latency and cost barriers that have historically limited deployment.”
Under the partnership, Aljammaz Technologies will distribute Groq’s complete portfolio of AI inference solutions across its extensive network of system integrators, value-added resellers throughout Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East. This includes both GroqCloud—Groq’s full-stack cloud platform for fast, production-ready inference—and GroqRack compute clusters for organizations requiring on-premises AI infrastructure.
The collaboration combines Groq’s technical innovation with Aljammaz’s 29 years of experience delivering advanced technology solutions to the region’s most demanding enterprises. Aljammaz currently serves the financial, industrial, education, telecommunications, hospitality, healthcare, government, and SMB sectors through partnerships with global technology leaders including Dell Technologies, HPE, Cisco, and Alibaba Cloud.
“For almost 30 years, AlJammaz Technologies has been driving innovation and enabling our partners across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East to adopt cutting-edge technologies,” said Asim Aljammaz, CEO of AlJammaz Technologies. “As AI moves from experimentation to real-world implementation, our mission is to empower partners with the infrastructure, expertise, and ecosystem support needed to unlock its full potential. Partnering with Groq perfectly aligns with our AI-First strategy and strengthens our ability to deliver AI-ready solutions that make high-performance, real-time applications achievable and sustainable across industries.”
The global AI industry is projected to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, with inference workloads consuming far more compute resources than training as models move into production. Traditional GPU architectures, designed for graphics processing and repurposed for AI training, face inherent bottlenecks when running inference workloads at scale.
Groq designed the LPU from first principles specifically for AI inference, with architectural innovations including:
- Ultra-low latency: Delivering hundreds of tokens per second, enabling truly conversational AI and real-time applications
- Predictable performance: Software-defined architecture ensures consistent execution regardless of batch size or workload variability
- Energy efficiency: Up to 10x better power efficiency than GPU-based approaches, addressing sustainability and operational cost concerns
- Economic scalability: Competitive pricing combined with superior performance changes the ROI equation for production AI deployments
These capabilities unlock use cases across the MENA region’s priority sectors: Arabic language processing with near-instant response times, intelligent customer service for financial institutions, medical imaging analysis in healthcare, real-time threat detection for cybersecurity, and Arabic-optimized AI assistants for government services.
Groq and Aljammaz Technologies will showcase their partnership at GITEX Global 2025, with a comprehensive program designed for enterprises, startups, developers, and channel partners.
“GITEX provides the perfect platform to introduce our partnership to the region’s technology community,” said Mohamed Shaaban, Alliances & Partnerships Director, MENAT at Groq. “We’re not just showcasing technology—we’re demonstrating how inference-first design fundamentally changes what organizations can accomplish with AI.”
The partnership comes as governments and enterprises across the MENAT region ramp up AI investments in line with national initiatives like Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and the UAE’s AI Strategy. Regional data center spending is set to surge in 2025, driven by growing demand for AI infrastructure.
While most of the AI industry has focused on training larger models, Groq identified inference—the step where models run in production—as the real challenge. Since 2016, it has developed the LPU to overcome these bottlenecks.
Unlike traditional accelerators that trade accuracy for speed through quantization, Groq’s TruePoint numerics maintain precision without sacrificing performance. Its on-chip SRAM architecture eliminates latency caused by GPU memory hierarchies, delivering faster access to data.
These advances mark a major shift in AI computing. Independent tests show Groq achieving over 240 tokens per second on large language models—more than double competing systems—while using less energy.
