The AI chip race tale used to be about American national security, but it is now about tariffs now: NVDia and AMD have agreed to pay 15% revenue to the US government which they do by selling high-end AI chips for China, which in exchange for licenses to sell those chips in the country, Financial Times, Financial Time InformedCiting anonymous sources.
According to the official source of FT, Nvidia will share revenue from the sale of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD MI308 will cut the chip sales. The report said that the government has also started issuing licenses for the sale of chips of two companies.
In April, the Trump administration banned the sale of some high-demonstrations AI Estimate Chips for China, but a few months later stopped the ban, when NVidia Promise Data centers worth $ 500 billion are said in investment. Then in July, the company said that it will happen resume China sales its H20 AI chips, which it specifically designed for sale in the country following restrictions by the Biden administration.
According to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, Navidia’s course was a change Connected To discuss with China about rare-earth elements, which are necessary to create components such as rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles.
NVIDIA is a critics in the administration’s decision to approve the sale of H20 chips: National Security Specialist and Former Government Officers wrote Last month, for Lootnik, urges the government to perform reverse courses.
