NVIDIA can give us a reduction in the government of its profits to sell fleas AI to China

The debate on the question of whether manufacturers of IA fleas should be allowed to sell their products to China has taken an unusual turn. The US government would have given Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) the authorization to make sales but for a big catch: 15% of sales. The news was reported for the first time by Financial time,, who cited several people familiar with the agreement.

In July, Nvidia announced that the US government Approve export licenses To sell your H20 GPUs after block their sale in April. Nvidia has created these specific chips – which are less powerful than those sold in the United States – in response to restrictions on sales in China. He previously developed the A800 and H800 fleas for the Chinese market, but they were also prohibited.

Now, Nvidia and AMP have both obtained export licenses for China last week, after agreeing to give the government 15% of their profits. AMP will provide the share of sales of its MI308 chip.

There is an important debate on the question of whether the sale of AI fleas to China will endanger American national security. At the end of July, 20 national security experts and former government representatives – including the former deputy national security advisor to President Trump, Matt Pottinger – wrote a Letter to Howard LutnickThe American secretary of trade, by declaring so much.

The signatories “believe that this decision represents a strategic miss which endangers the economic and military advantage of the United States in artificial intelligence”. They fear that this will limit the number of chips available for the United States and will be used by Chinese soldiers, among other concerns. Nvidia does not agree, saying that export licenses will allow him to compete with Chinese companies.