Nvidia and AMD reportedly agree to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US | Technology
Nvidia and AMD agreed to give the US government to 15% of its revenues in China under an unprecedented regulation to obtain export licenses for semiconductors. Financial Times Report Sunday.
The income share is valid for NVIDIA’s H20 chips and AMD’s MI308 chips, in the report, referring to a US official, said that the Trump administration has not yet determined how to use the money.
According to the anonymous official, chip producers accepted the Quid Pro Quo regulation as a condition to obtain an export license for the Chinese market last week.
According to export control experts, no US company agreed to pay some of its income to obtain export licenses. However, Donald Trump encouraged firms and countries to invest in the United States, with his words, “Buy”.
In a statement sent to a NVIDIA spokesman Reuters by e -mail, Nvidia follows the rules set by the US government to participate in world markets. “Even though we have not sent H20 to China for months, we hope that export control rules will allow America to compete in China and worldwide.”
AMD did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
The US Commercial Department began to license Nvidia to export H20 chips to China last week, and an important obstacle to artificial intelligence Bellwether’s access to a key market.
Last month, the US reversed April on the sale of the H20 chip to China. The company adapted the microprocessor to the Chinese market, especially in order to comply with the Biden Era AI chip export controls.
