Industry Findings: Public strategy is steering the country toward onshore compute capacity and AI-enabled testbeds, changing how buyers size memory for national projects. The ministry launched a coordinated AI and digital future programme in Sep-2024 that explicitly encourages investment in AI-ready data centres and supports startups that require local compute access. This policy signal pushed procurement teams to favour memory and storage architectures that reduce cross-border dataset flows and simplify governance while enabling higher on-node capacity for low-latency inference. The outcome improved deployment certainty for pilots and helped justify capital for denser, thermally optimised memory modules across government and industry clusters.
Industry Player Insights: Among the many providers in this industry, a few include Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, SK hynix, and Kioxia etc. Micron’s ramp to volume production for its HBM3E family in Feb-2024 materially expanded available ultra-high-bandwidth inventory, which Oman-based integrators referenced when specifying training-capable racks for national research centres. SK hynix followed with large-scale HBM3E output in Sep-2024, giving system designers additional sourcing flexibility and shortening the vendor-qualification window for high-throughput memory options relevant to the newly funded testbeds.