{"id":137017,"date":"2025-08-11T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137017\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:19:09","slug":"nvidia-amd-may-sell-high-end-ai-chips-to-china-if-they-pay-us-a-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it\u2019s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cd1a0729-a8ab-41e1-a4d2-8907f4c01cac\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the FT\u2019s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip sales. The government has also started issuing licenses for the sale of the two companies\u2019 chips, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration in April had restricted sales of certain high-performance AI inference chips to China, but paused the ban a couple of months later, when Nvidia <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-says-working-with-partners-make-ai-supercomputers-us-2025-04-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a> to make up to $500 billion worth of data center investments stateside. Then in July, the company said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/14\/nvidia-is-set-to-resume-china-chip-sales-after-months-of-regulatory-whiplash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resume<\/a> sales of its H20 AI chips to China, which it had designed specifically for sale in the country following restrictions by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Nvidia\u2019s change of course was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/16\/nvidias-resumption-of-h20-chip-sales-related-to-rare-earth-element-trade-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">related<\/a> to trade discussions with China regarding rare-earth elements, which are necessary for making components, like rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration\u2019s decision to approve the sale of Nvidia\u2019s H20 chips has its critics: national security experts and former government officials <a href=\"https:\/\/ari.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-Secretary-Lutnick-on-H20-restrictions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a> to Lutnick last month, urging the government to reverse course.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it\u2019s about tariffs:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,21315,738,1671,82311,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amd","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-nvidia","12":"tag-nvidia-h20","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115010336551269345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}