Last week, we reported about the Democrat Congressman’s Bill Foster’s introduction plans to introduce a bill that requires manufacturers of AI processors in NVIDIA GPUs, such as the need to enforce the tech, which allows the US government to know where they will end. Well, it seems that the Senate did not want to move forward, because after less than 24 hours, Arkansas’s Senator Tom Cotton announced the Chip Security Act, his own bill AI hardware manufacturers need to allow all these important chips (Via to allow geo tracking through Via. Tom Shardware,
Press Release by announcing cotton billWhich states that this legislation will prevent US hardware from falling into the hands of opponents like Communist China, using the word “chips” nine times. You know it’s serious.
“We must work better to maintain and increase our position in the global market, while protecting the US technical edge,” Cotton said in a press release. “With these better safety measures, we can continue to increase access to US technology without compromising our national security.”
The Chip Security Act will instruct the Secretary for Trade that “export controls will require location verification procedures on products with advance chips or export controlled advance chips,” the exporters need to inform the bureau industry and security if they are not informed.
Especially, The text of the bill Export Control Rating No. 3A090, 3A001.Z, 4A090, 4A003.Z, or a geo -tracking mechanism will be required on products classified under any “successor or substantial extent”. RTX 4090 has been classified as high -end NVIDIA GPUS as ECCN 3A090 and 4A090 products From 2023While US export control orders have been stopping sales of NVIDIA GPU to China since 2022.
The bill also includes provisions for harmony with the Department of Defense to study the potential and newly developed safety methods “and determine if a new mechanism will be needed.”
Nvidia has said publicly Its hardware is not able to track After selling it, and he has denied massive smuggling concerns. However, it is worth noting that TSMC – NVIDIA hardware’s central producer to experience a possible fine of $ 1 billion last month when one of his chips was discovered in the Huawei processor.
I understand the justification for the protection of US dominance in AI Tech, but I would recognize that my GPU felt a little foolish in the idea of being tracked as a potential national security threat. If their experience ends with anything like me, no one with a smuggled 4090 will probably just try to decide most of their time whether DLSS looks like it is coated in the shining of the cyberwas line.
