Trump adds US government revenue cut to Nvidia and AMD sales
President Trump allows chip sales to China to resume – with one major caveat
AMD and Nvidia will have to hand over 15% of the sales revenue
No additional measures have been made to address national security threats
The US government has reversed a ban on the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chip and AMD’s MI308 chip to China under the condition that 15% of the revenue is paid to the US government.
The Trump administration expanded efforts to curb China’s ability to obtain powerful chips used to develop AI models by expanding Biden-era sanctions to an outright ban on the sale of the processors.
Many security experts, including those working under the Trump administration, have warned the government the sale of powerful processors to China will help it to expand both its consumer and military AI efforts to surpass the US.What happened to national security?
The Nvidia H20 and AMD MI308 processors were developed to comply with Biden administration restrictions on AI processing chips that could be sold in China.
