US Government's Chip Deals Raise Concerns on Free Market Ideals

The U.S. government is getting involved in the chip business in a new way.

They are taking a cut of Nvidia and AMD's chip sales to China, in exchange for letting them sell the chips.

Also, the government might get a part of Intel, a big chip maker, by using money from a special fund.

This is different from how the U.S. usually does things, which is letting businesses run themselves.

Some people are worried that the government is acting like a business partner, or becoming like countries the U.S. has criticized in the past.