Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place

Despite the best efforts of the U.S. government to prevent Chinese entities from obtaining the latest AI and HPC processors developed in America, Chinese companies still manage to get them by either smuggling them to the People’s Republic or by installing them in a nearby country to use them remotely. To put an end to this, U.S. legislators proposed to install tracking devices on AI processors, such as Nvidia’s Blackwell, to disable them remotely if they are used illegally by an adversary nation. While…