MemryX, a fabless AI semiconductor company, said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lenovo to expand deployments of edge AI systems across Saudi Arabia. The company said the agreement builds on joint platform deployments already running in the Kingdom and establishes a framework for the two firms to pursue opportunities in infrastructure, industrial operations, smart cities and video management. MemryX said the collaboration is intended to support Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.
The joint platform combines Lenovo's ThinkEdge SE455 V3 edge server with the MemryX Cascade 100P AI accelerator to process video and sensor data on site. According to the company, running that work locally reduces latency, gives organizations more control over their data and limits reliance on centralized AI infrastructure that requires power and cooling.
MemryX said the platform is already in use in large-scale infrastructure programs in Saudi Arabia. One deployment runs real-time construction safety analytics, including checks on personal protective equipment compliance and detection of site safety events. A second operates in a port environment, handling compliance and site-monitoring workloads over the operator's existing camera infrastructure without disrupting ongoing operations.
Under the MOU, the companies said they will look to expand customer deployments in Saudi Arabia and pursue opportunities in infrastructure and industrial markets. The agreement also covers validating the platform through a Lenovo Center of Excellence and developing additional solutions through Lenovo AI Innovation. The two companies said they intend to explore rack-scale server configurations for computer vision inference, which they said could support regional and global go-to-market efforts.
MemryX chief executive Ross Jatou said the work with Lenovo showed how quickly the company's technology could move from evaluation into demanding, real-world deployments, and that the two were delivering AI inference close to customer operations. Salman Faqeeh, Lenovo's vice president and general manager for Saudi Arabia, said customers want to apply AI to safety, efficiency and faster insight from their data while keeping it close to where it is created, and that deployments already running in the country showed organizations moving from experimentation to real-world adoption.