A top UAE official plans to visit Washington to press for easier access to American technology and discuss investment in the US, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking to sway the Trump administration on export controls governing the advanced semiconductors needed to power artificial intelligence.

The United Arab Emirates national security advisor is embarking on a trip to the U.S. to let Washington allow the Middle Eastern nation to purchase more artificial intelligence accelerators from companies such as Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA),

One of the sources said Meta’s new training chip is a dedicated accelerator, meaning it is designed to handle only AI-specific tasks. This can make it more power-efficient than the integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) generally used for AI workloads.

Any setbacks in new chips meant that companies were forced to use older chips, which might not sit well with customers. Perhaps the AI industry is learning from this, because, according to a report from Reuters,