Xiao held up the wafer and described the scale. “There are more than four trillion transistors on this one chip,” he said, contrasting it with today’s largest GPUs, which he said top out at just over 100 billion transistors because they are limited to a much smaller die area. Using an entire wafer, he said, allows for a roughly 40-fold increase in transistor count.
Guests look at a model of the largest data center in the UAE under construction in Abu Dhabi as the Stargate initiative, a joint venture between G42, Microsoft, and OpenAI, during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu Dhabi on November 3, 2025. (credit: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)
Purpose of the new chip
The chip is intended for deployment at G42’s planned 5-gigawatt AI campus in Abu Dhabi, a project previously described by Xiao as the largest AI factory initiative outside the United States. He said multiple units like this will be installed to power what he called an AI production environment.
To explain the technical need, Xiao said that advanced AI requires enormous computing capacity. He compared energy to the sustenance for AI systems and the chip to the central mechanism that converts that energy into intelligence.
Xiao also recounted the pace of work at the Abu Dhabi site, saying the land chosen last June was empty desert. A recent image, he said, shows construction advancing toward the first 200 megawatts of state-of-the-art AI data center capacity. The broader campus plan was announced last May during a visit by President Donald Trump.
Originally written by: THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Published on: 8 February 2026
Link to original article: UAE unveils wafer-scale AI chip with four transistors at Dubai summit
