U.S. Revenue Grab on Chip Exports Raises Legal, Economic Alarms
Nvidia, which makes up 92 percent of the global GPU market, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which has the remaining 8 percent, have reached a deal with the Trump administration. They’ll get export licenses for the sale of certain chips to China in exchange for 15 percent of the revenues generated by the sales, reports the Financial Times.
“No US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences,” the paper notes.
The deal comes on the heels of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s meeting with President Donald Trump last Wednesday regarding the export controls imposed by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
Those controls have barred the sale in China of the Nvidia H100 and the pared down Nvidia H20 since September 2022 and April 2025, respectively. Before the H20 export controls went into effect, Nvidia would have generated $23 billion in revenue from their sale in the Chinese market, according to the Financial Times. Despite the controls, China comprised 13 percent ($17 billion) of Nvidia’s total sales and 24 percent
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