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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

52 points| laserson | 6 months ago |nytimes.com

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duxup|6 months ago

Is this some weird nationalization of industry?

Or is this pay to play and every other company has to abide by chip restrictions?

DiscourseFan|6 months ago

We live in a world where nationalization and gangster politics go hand in hand.

judge123|6 months ago

On one hand, you're starving a competitor (Huawei) of cash and using China's own money to fund US innovation. Genius, maybe? On the other, you're handing them the tools to level up their entire tech tree. I honestly can't decide. What's the fatal flaw I'm missing here?

ksynwa|6 months ago

China won't abandon developing indigenous technology just because they are able to gain access to American GPUs

thisisit|6 months ago

That this blatant corruption. Pay to play. Every time a company needs to do something illegal, say trade with Russia despite the sanctions, pay US government a cut and go ahead and trade.

thisisit|6 months ago

From corrupt businessman to corrupting the government. Next up - trade with North Korea is okay, if you pay the government 50% of your profits.

g-b-r|6 months ago

So weird, a couple dozen posts about this and no one has a lot of comments

ytpete|6 months ago

It's weird that the duplicates didn't get consolidated into one post with more combined points that would bubble higher up in the feed. I thought HN auto-detects when duplicate links are submitted in a short time window?

breadwinner|6 months ago

Trump is thinking like a business man... ordinarily he would pocket the 15% himself (this is after all the same man who said the entire Gaza should be his personal property) but realizes the country is not yet at the point where that would be seen as normal and acceptable. Trump is taking us in the direction where soon that would be seen as normal and acceptable.

duxup|6 months ago

I don't think this deal precludes people buying some lame crypto that Trump can dump ...