Nvidia is reportedly testing new tracking software to address concerns about its AI chips being smuggled into China. The software, as reported by Reuters, enables Nvidia to determine the approximate location of its chips, providing insight into their whereabouts.
The technology involves location verification that can identify the country where a chip is being used. While primarily tracking computing performance, the software leverages communication delays between servers to ascertain the chip’s location.
Initially, this tracking software will be optional for customers and is set to be deployed first for Blackwell chips, according to Reuters.
Recent reports have suggested that China’s DeepSeek AI models may have been trained on illicitly obtained Nvidia Blackwell chips. Nvidia has stated that it has not encountered evidence supporting such claims of smuggling.
This development follows Nvidia’s recent approval from the U.S. government to sell its H200 AI chips to authorized customers in China. However, this approval is specific to older H200 chips and does not include the Blackwell chips, which are at the center of the current smuggling concerns.
Source: TechCrunch
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