NVIDIA and AMD flea manufacturers have entered into an atypical agreement with the Trump administration: they will donate 15% of their revenues from the sales of IA fleas in China to the US government.
American manufacturers of NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) semiconductors have entered into an unprecedented agreement with the Trump administration. In exchange for obtaining export licenses to China, they will donate 15% of the income generated on this market by their flea sales for artificial intelligence, according to the Financial Times.
Nvidia will apply this measure to its sales of the H20 chip, while AMD will submit its income linked to the MI308 chip. The terms of use of funds by the US government have not been specified.
The agreement comes after the Trump administration had prohibited the export of the H20 chip to China last May. This decision was canceled following a meeting between Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, and Donald Trump. The export licenses then began to be issued.
According to Bernstein analysts, based on Nvidia forecasts before the entry into force of the restrictions, around 1.5 million H20 chips could be sold in China in 2025, generating a turnover estimated at $ 23 billion, specifies the Financial Times.
This type of arrangement is unprecedented. Exporting experts interviewed by the Financial Times stressed that an American company had ever agreed to share part of its income to obtain such licenses. This gesture is part of the logic of the Trump presidency, which encourages companies to take measures to avoid more severe economic sanctions.
However, this decision arouses criticism. Some American American experts fear that the H20 chip will strengthen Chinese military capacities and weaken the United States supremacy in artificial intelligence. Nvidia has refuted these accusations, saying that technology will not be used for military purposes.
Within the American administration, some officials of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) expressed their disagreement with the lifting of the H20 chip.