China to the US government as part of a deal with the Trump administration to secure export licenses, the Financial Times reported Sunday. The paper cited a US official as saying that Nvidia would share 15% of the revenue from sales of its H20 chip in China and AMD will deliver the same share from MI308 revenues.

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the U.S. government 15% of their revenues from chip sales in China, under an arrangement to obtain export licenses for the semiconductors, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The quid pro quo arrangement is unprecedented. According to experts, no US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences.