Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week echoed earlier comments from the White House that said the administration is open to expanding its Nvidia and AMD revenue-sharing export arrangements to other companies or industries (see 2508120049). He said the U.S. is OK negotiating export controls over Nvidia’s H20s chips because they present no national security issues.
A U.S. cryptocurrency trading software company has reached a proposed $2.4 million settlement with the Office of Foreign Assets Control to resolve allegations that it violated U.S. sanctions, the company disclosed this week.
The Trump administration may consider expanding the revenue-sharing arrangements that it reached with Nvidia and AMD to other U.S. companies, the White House said this week.
Pacific Biosciences of California, an American biotechnology firm, said it recently informed the Bureau of Industry and Security about possible export violations involving China.
Semiconductor companies Nvidia and AMD are expected to pay the U.S. government a portion of the profits they earn from selling certain controlled chips to China, an arrangement that has sparked concerns and questions among exporters, lawmakers and former government officials.
U.S. export controls have so far helped American chip companies maintain technological dominance over Chinese ones, a technology policy expert said this week, which suggests the Trump administration should rethink its decision to allow sales of H20 chips to China (see 2507150013).
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. last year nearly doubled its site visits and opened multiple investigations on possible filing violations stemming from voluntary disclosures, CFIUS said in its annual report released this week.
Nvidia chips don’t have and shouldn’t be required to have so-called “kill switches” that would allow exported chips to be remotely disabled without the user’s consent, the semiconductor company said this week.
Estonia has recently seen an uptick in shipments of imported plywood that it suspects of violating EU sanctions against Russia, the country’s tax and customs agency said this month.
The U.S. last week arrested and accused two Chinese nationals of using a California-based company to illegally export tens of millions of dollars' worth of advanced AI semiconductors to China, including by first transshipping the chips through Malaysia and Singapore.