Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of its revenue from the sale of a certain chips to China. Is that legal?

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will give 15% of their chip revenue from sales in China to the U.S. government as a condition of receiving new export licenses, according to a report Sunday.

In an unusual move, two of the world’s largest chipmakers have reportedly agreed to hand over some of their revenues to secure export licenses. In a historically unusual move, two of the world’s largest chipmakers,