Nvidia Split Over Chip Tracking

United StatesNvidia privately told a lawmaker it can track its chips.

Its trade group, the Semiconductor Industry Association, opposed the tracking mandate in March as untested.

The Chip Security Act would verify locations through inspections, attestations or ping signals, to stop smuggling to China.

Nvidia’s representatives answered “yeah, of course we can do this,” said Representative Bill Foster, an Illinois Democrat.

Foster plans a bill next year requiring licences to operate advanced chips, verified before connection.

How each outlet framed it

MIT Technology Review: reports that Nvidia told Rep. Foster privately that the Chip Security Act's tracking was technically possible, contradicting its industry group's 'potentially infeasible' claim