Chip Giants Nvidia and AMD have approved the US government by 15 % of Chinese revenue as part of an “unprecedented” deal to secure export licenses to China, and the BBC has been informed.
The United States has previously banned the sale of strong chips used in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) to China under export controls, usually related to national security concerns.
Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump’s first term, He recently wrote to the administration, expressing “deep anxiety” The NVIDIA H20 Slide was “strongly speeding” of the capabilities of artificial intelligence in China.
“We are following the rules that the US government determines to participate in global markets,” Nvidia told the BBC.
He added: “Although we have not shipped H20 to China for several months, we hope that export control rules will allow America to compete in China and all over the world.”
Amd did not respond immediately on a request for comment. The White House refused to comment.
Under the agreement, NVIDIA will pay 15 % of its revenues from H20 chips in China to the United States government.
AMD will also provide 15 % of the revenue resulting from the sales of the MI308 chip in China to the Trump administration, which was reported by the Financial Times for the first time.
The H20 chip was developed specifically for the Chinese market after the American export restrictions were imposed by the Biden administration in 2023.
The chip sales were effectively banned by the Trump government in April this year.
Beijing has previously criticized the United States government, accusing it of “misuse of export monitoring measures, and participation in bullying.”
Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO spent months pressure on both sides to resume chips in China. According to US President Donald Trump met last week.
“You have a problem with national security or do not do it,” said Deborah Emles, head of commercial policy at the Hinrich Foundation.
“If you have a 15 % boost, this does not somehow remove the issue of national security,” she added.
In Beijing, the Foreign Ministry said: “Regarding the issue of US chips to China, China has mentioned its position over and over again.”
In a message last month to US Minister of Trade Howard Lottenic, a group of 20 security specialists said that although the largest buyers of the H20 Potatoes in NVIDIA were civilian companies in China, they expect to be used by the army.
They wrote: “The improved chips to infer artificial intelligence will not simply not generate energy consumers or manufactured logistics; they will enable independent arms systems, intelligence monitoring platforms and rapid progress in decision -making in the battlefield.”
In a statement to the British Broadcasting Corporation, NVIDIA said: “America cannot repeat 5G and the loss of communications driving.
Charlie Day, Vice President and lead analyst at the World Research Company Forster, said the agreement to deliver more than 15 % of China’s chips to the United States government for export licenses was “unprecedented”.
He added: “The arrangement emphasizes the high cost of reaching the markets amid the commercial tensions of escalating technology, which creates great financial pressure and the strategic uncertainty of the technology sellers.”
The resumption of china sales in China comes as commercial tensions between Beijing and Washington mitigated.
Beijing has convenient controls on rare Earth exports, while the United States has raised restrictions on china china design programs.
In May, the world’s largest economy agreed to a 90 -day truce in the tariff war.
Since then, senior commercial officials on both sides have met on a number of occasions, although an agreement to expand the scope of customs tariffs has not been confirmed yet before August 12 of the deadline.
As part of his trade policy, Trump pressed the major companies to make more investments in the United States.
Last week, Apple said it will invest another 100 billion dollars (74.4 billion pounds) in the country, adding to a previous pledge to spend $ 500 billion in the United States during the next four years.
In June, Micron Technology said the memory slices manufacturer said its planned investments would be $ 200 billion. This includes building a new manufacturing facility in Idaho.
NVIDIA itself has announced plans to build 500 billion dollars in the United States, pledging to build the first giant computers of artificial intelligence, which is fully American.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that Intel president will meet Trump at the White House after he called the president to resign for his relationship with China.
Last week, Trump said on social media that the lips were “very conflicting”, apparently indicating his alleged investments in companies that the United States said was linked to the Chinese army.
Mr. Tan pushed back, saying it was “wrong information.”