Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will travel to the White House for an official working visit on November 18, a White House confirmed according to local reports.
The Crown Prince will meet with President Donald Trump, who made Saudi Arabia his first foreign destination during both his first and second terms in office.
Several agreements are expected to be discussed during the meeting, including defence and technology deals, particularly in the semiconductor sector. Bilateral ties between Washington and Riyadh have deepened in recent months.
Saudi Arabia Crown Prince to meet Trump as $142 billion agreements progress
During Trump’s visit to the Kingdom in May, the two countries signed $142 billion in Memoranda of Intent, which included Saudi investments in the US defence industrial base.
Sources familiar with the discussions told The Wall Street Journal that a deal allowing American companies to export semiconductor chips to Saudi Arabia was nearing completion.
Last week, Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN and US-based Qualcomm Technologies announced an agreement aimed at positioning the Kingdom as a hub for artificial intelligence.
The announcement, made on the sidelines of the ninth Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, builds on a partnership first unveiled during the Saudi–US Investment Forum in May, part of Trump’s visit to the Kingdom.
According to a joint statement released, the collaboration will deliver AI inferencing services through what the companies described as the world’s first fully optimised edge-to-cloud hybrid AI platform.
