Chip giants Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China revenue to US
Chip Giants Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay 15% of the US government to pay 15% of semiconductor sales in China, and the BBC was told by a source close to the issue.
The agreement is part of the agreement to guarantee export licenses to the world’s second largest economy.
“We follow the rules set by the US government for our participation in world markets. Although we have not sent H20 to China for months, we hope that export control rules will allow America to compete in China and worldwide,” Nvidia said. He said.
AMD did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
In a statement to the BBC, Nvidia said: “America cannot repeat 5G and can not lose telecommunication leadership. [artificial intelligence] If we compete, the pile of technology can be the standard of the world. “
In accordance with the agreement, the Nvidia revenues will pay 15% to the US government from H20 chip sales in China, while AMD will first give the same percentage of MI308 CHIP revenues reported by Financial Times.
Charlie Dai, the vice president of the global research company Forrester, said that this agreement was “unprecedented”.
“Edicts the high market access, which creates important financial pressure and strategic uncertainty for regulation, increase in technology trade tensions and technology sellers,” he added.
Washington previously banned the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chips to Beijing through security concerns, but the company announced that it would recently be reversed. These powerful chips are used in artificial intelligence applications (AI).
“You either have a national security problem or no,” said Deborah Elms, President of the Hinrich Foundation Trade Policy.
ELMS, BBC’ye told, “If you pay 15%, it does not eliminate the national security problem somehow.” He said.
The H20 chip was specially developed for the Chinese market after exporting restrictions were implemented by the Biden administration in 2023. The sale was effectively banned by the Trump administration in April this year.
Jensen Huang, General Manager of Nvidia, spent both sides for months to lobby for months to restore the sales of the plugs in China. US President Donald Trump reportedly met last week.
The re -start of chip sales to China comes because the trade tensions between Beijing and Washington relieve.
Beijing has made comfortable controls in rare land exports, while the USA has removed restrictions on chip design software companies operating in China.
In May, the world’s two largest economies accepted a 90 -day ceasefire during the tariffs war.
Since then, the best trade officials from both sides have come together several times, but an agreement to extend the pause of tariffs has not yet been confirmed before the deadline for August 12th.
The Financial Times reported that China has previously called on the US to loosen export controls of semiconductors as part of any potential tariff agreement agreement.
As a part of the trade policy, Trump put pressure on large companies to invest more in the United States.
Last week, Apple said it would invest more than $ 100 billion (£ 74.4 billion) and add $ 500 billion in the United States in the next four years.
In June, Micron Technology, a memory chip manufacturer, said that planned US investments would be a total of $ 200 billion. This includes the construction of a new production facility in Idaho.
Nvidia himself announced his plans to create AI servers up to $ 500 billion in the United States and promised to build their first American -made AI super computers.
