NVIDIA and AMD will donate to the US government 15% of their IA chip export income to China

The weeks are linked and are definitely not alike at the White House: according to information from Financial Times Published this afternoon, NVIDIA and AMD will pay 15% of their future income from their “IA” chips for the Chinese market. A decision that comes only a few days after the visit to the Oval Office of Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, against a backdrop of the trade department to issue the precious authorizations necessary for the export of H20 fleas in China.

The two chips concerned are H20 and MI308 of Nvidia and AMD respectively; Two processors cut for uses in artificial intelligence, and formerly subject to important export restrictions set up by the Biden government at the end of 2023. Restrictions that led to the development of the H20 chip, specially designed for the Chinese market, finally also banned by the Trump administration last April. It was not until June to see the North American Administration, backward, after a first visit to Huang with Donald Trump.

The Financial Times says that the two firms ” will share their income “Flea sales, with the Trump administration, without anyone knowing that it is a tax or a donation. Unlike recent prices, whose jurisprudence is wide and whose name is vague (and therefore free to interpret) in laws, taxes on the export of goods are well codified as illegal in article 1, section 8 of the American Constitution. It now remains to be seen how this share of the income collected will be justified with the Congress; And which will be the next tech companies to take out the checkbook to arrange the favors of the government. Under Trump’s viewfinder for collusion with the Chinese marketthe timing of the imminent visit of the boss of Intel Lip-Bu tan to the oval office, announced today, is ultimately surprising.