A new AMI and KERNO Enterprise licensing agreement brings AMI’s platform firmware, manageability, and security stack into KERNO’s Dubai-based server manufacturing plans for Middle East deployments.
AI demand has driven data center buildout to a global scale with operators seeking the right mix of real estate, tech talent, and available power to fuel upcoming demand. This opens the door for new players to emerge to answer requirements on every path of the value chain. One hotbed of data center expansion is the middle east, and KERNO, a Dubai-based server manufacturer, is capturing that opportunity to build a business case for in-region server production built for the AI era.
From AMI’s perspective, that’s the backdrop for why we formalized a technology licensing agreement with KERNO Enterprise during a recent production tour of its upcoming manufacturing facility in Dubai Silicon Oasis. We know that firmware forms a foundation for heterogeneous system management at AI factory scale, and foundational partnerships help to ensure that AMI is playing a central role in re-architecting data center control for this next wave of deployment.
Middle East: A Hotbed of AI Innovation
As data centers proliferate across the globe driven by data proximity, data sovereignty, and power and talent presence, the UAE’s has seen an opportunity for economic growth. The KERNO facility and the surrounding industrial momentum speak to an ambition to strengthen sovereign IT infrastructure, broaden manufacturing capability, and attract high-value technology investment. That matters in a region where AI ambitions are a strategic augmentation to traditional industry. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have put gigawatt-class campuses on the table, with deep financial backing to turn these targets into operational data center capacity in the near future.
AI Era Data Center Control is Founded on Firmware
With this new AI data center buildout, the same foundational challenges to operating complex infrastructure at AI scale remain. Common oversight of heterogeneous infrastructure, hardware rooted platform trust, and attestation, and built in hooks for improved infrastructure automation are all table stakes for AI infrastructure deployment. AMI’s deep history with the world’s leading silicon vendors, systems suppliers, and data center operators put us in a fantastic position to drive the foundational technology required for this moment in firmware delivery as well as welcome new partners to leverage what has come before for new infrastructure deployments ahead.
What This Partnership Unlocks
Under the agreement, KERNO will manufacture servers built on licensed Aptio V and MegaRAC SPX technologies, with plans to implement firmware security through Tektagon to support next-generation silicon platforms. Those product names carry weight, but the bigger point is simple: proven AMI firmware, already deployed across millions of devices in the market, combined with enterprise manageability and platform‑rooted trust, delivers robust, AI‑ready platforms, accelerating time to market.
KERNO recently introduced ready-for-production enterprise server units and focuses on regional server assembly, hardware integration, and customized deployments for enterprise and data center clients across the Middle East. That combination makes the partnership immediately relevant to customers trying to stand up capacity without waiting on long global supply chains. We’re delighted for what’s next.
