US politicians want to track Nvidia chips smuggled to China

In a nutshell: A new bipartisan bill aims to leverage a previously undisclosed tracking technology embedded in Nvidia chips to monitor where the products end up after sale. The bill's proponents are primarily concerned about powerful GPUs being supplied to Chinese organizations for training adversarial AI models. A former particle physicist and chip designer is advocating for US authorities to adopt an effective method for tracking Nvidia GPUs. "The technology is already there," a supporter of the bill said, adding that the US Department of Commerce would simply need to develop appropriate regulations and enforce existing bans on chip exports to certain nations. According to Bill Foster, a Democrat from Illinois who has designed multiple chips during his career, Nvidia could already determine the current locations of its high-performance GPUs. Much of the technology needed for real-time tracking is already integrated into the chips, Foster stated. Independent experts contacted by Reu ... Read full article.