Two Republican lawmakers gave different views Aug. 12 on the Trump administration’s decision to allow Nvidia and AMD to sell certain controlled chips to China in exchange for a portion of their sales revenue (see 2508110044).
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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.
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.
The Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to promote exports of AI technologies to close trading partners, especially those in Asia, a senior White House official said last week at a meeting of ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation member states.
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).
A former employee of Tokyo Electron, a leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, was involved in the recent theft of trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Tokyo Electron said Aug. 7.
The head of a tech policy nonprofit urged the leaders of three congressional committees Aug. 7 to hold a hearing to examine the “large-scale smuggling” of advanced American AI chips into China in violation of U.S. export controls.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has begun legal proceedings and taken “strict disciplinary actions” against former or current employees involved in stealing sensitive technology from the company (see 2508050043), it confirmed 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.