Nvidia And AMD Buy Their Way Around US Security Concerns

Microchip manufacturers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give 15% of Chinese chip sales to the US government in a move that isn’t a tax or tariff but some secret third thing that definitely isn’t a bribe.

Previously, America banned the companies from selling powerful chips to China in an effort to curb their AI development (not that it really stopped them). Experts cited Nvidia’s H20 chip in particular as an accelerator of China’s AI capabilities and banned sales of the chip even though it was created specifically for the Chinese market.

But APPARENTLY, all it took was a cool 15% to make the government look the other way about those security concerns and allow H20 chip sales again. What are we doing here?

AMD made the same deal for its MI308 chip. Good for them.

The move follows Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang’s intense lobbying, including a meeting with Trump last week. FUCK! I got so far in this article without mentioning him. Damnit, I was doing so well!!

OK, Deborah Elms from the Hinrich Foundation (yeah, I don’t know either) put it really well, “You either have a national security problem or you don’t If you have a 15% payment, it doesn’t somehow eliminate the national security issue.” Oh, yeah, that’s well put. It seems that things are true until the kickback cheque cashes.

This cooling of trade tensions between China and America is part of a growing trade peace between the two superpowers. We got a 90-tariff-truce, a minerals agreement, and an agreement that Walt Disney would no longer produce any more Winnie the Pooh movies.

Whether this peace will last, only time and nuclear war will tell.

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