Trump Bid for Cut of Chip Revenue Risks ‘Dangerous World’

Trump Could Let Nvidia Sell Scaled-Down Blackwell Chip to China

Provide news feedback or report an error

Confidential tip?

Send a tip to our reporters

Site feedback:

Take our Survey

By Katia Dmitrieva and Philip Heijmans

August 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM UTC

Updated on

August 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM UTC

The revenue-for-exports deal between the US government and two of the world’s biggest chipmakers opens a new front in a trading regime turned upside down by Donald Trump.

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to pay the US government 15% of revenue from some chip sales to China. The chips — Nvidia’s H20 AI accelerator and AMD’s MI308 chips — were earlier banned by the Trump administration and require export licenses to sell.