The U.S. government could also also earn earlier on future sales from AI chips to China. According to media reports, it should collect a share of 15 percent at Nvidia and AMD chip exports.
According to media reports, the US government is ready to loosen the controls for export important AI chips to China. However, she wants to be involved in the income, first reported the Financial Times (FT) on Sunday.
In the future, chip manufacturers Nvidia and AMD led 15 percent of their income from chip sales in China to the US government, according to the British financial newspaper. The companies would have agreed to receive export licenses for semiconductors.
Losing part of the Trade agreement?
In order to cover the chip requirement of his aspiring AI industry, China is very interested in eliminating trade restrictions for American semiconductors. Before a possible summit of his President Xi Jinping with US President Donald Trump, this should be enforced as part of a trade agreement, the FT wrote. Representatives of China would have informed experts in Washington that the leadership in Beijing wishes to relax the export restrictions for HBM chips (High-Bandwidth Memory).
HBM chips are of crucial importance for the quick execution of data-intensive tasks of artificial intelligence. They are used together with AI graphics processors that come in particular from Nvidia. According to the FT, China is concerned because the US controls for HBM affect the ability of Chinese companies such as Huawei to develop their own AI chips.
Commerce versus security
In the USA, commercial issues collide with security interests on this question. Several consecutive US governments have limited the export of modern chips to China. This is intended to slow down the development there with artificial intelligence and military skills.
On the one hand, this has affected the possibilities of US companies to serve the rapidly growing demand from China, one of the largest semiconductor markets in the world. At the same time, the country remains an important sales provider for American chip manufacturers.
