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Andy Edser

Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report

Images of Nvidia's Blackwell GPU from GTC.

According to a Reuters report, Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, in an effort to prevent its AI GPUs from being smuggled into countries where their export has been banned.

According to its sources, the feature is said to be a software option that taps into the "confidential computing capabilities" of Nvidia's AI GPUs as part of a new service, which would utilise the delay in communicating with Nvidia servers to give a rough idea of which geographic location they were operating from.

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