{"id":1195156,"date":"2026-02-18T01:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yxoBUEu38cuYiyAbti9TrJ"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:12:40","slug":"one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia&#8217;s graphics cards so they can be bricked if they end up in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very strange thing that happens when an industry starts to become incredibly relevant to national security: There&#8217;s talk of spy movie-sounding tech like tracking and remote disablement. And no, I&#8217;m not talking about PC gaming\u2014this is, of course, about Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips and the potential that they could end up in China&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-lawmaker-targets-nvidia-chip-smuggling-china-with-new-bill-2025-05-05\/\">Reuters<\/a>, such remote tracking and disablement might actually be on the cards, if a bill planned by Democrat Representative Bill Foster comes into effect. The bill would have AI chips like Nvidia&#8217;s be made in such a way that the country could keep a rough track of where they end up, and potentially even prevent them from booting if they&#8217;re tracked to a restricted country.<\/p>\n<p>Foster tells Reuters that the technology for such tracking (even if not the disablement) already exists and much of it is already built into Nvidia chips. Apparently, &#8220;independent technical experts&#8221; that Reuters interviewed agree. There&#8217;s supposedly already some bipartisan support for this bill, too.<\/p>\n<p>It must, of course, be China that the legislators primarily have in mind with this bill. The race for AI supremacy between the US and China has had the former country&#8217;s administrations over the past few years attempting to curb powerful AI chips entering the eastern superpower&#8217;s hands. That&#8217;s primarily taken the form of export controls.<\/p>\n<p>The US <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/us-orders-nvidia-to-halt-sale-of-dollar400m-worth-of-gpus-to-china\/\">set restrictions for exports to China<\/a> back in 2022. It then planned to split the world into three tiers: those that can have US chips, those that can have some, and those that can&#8217;t have any. This was on track to come into effect this month, but President Trump is <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/trump-officials-eye-changes-bidens-ai-chip-export-rule-sources-say-2025-04-29\/\">reportedly<\/a> considering a different approach which would have each individual country require a license for US chips.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"kdv4ZzgbGErhHcgb4GfcWJ\" name=\"NVIDIA-GB200-Grace-Blackwell-Superchip-01.jpg\" alt=\"An image of an Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell super chip against a black background\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite Nvidia&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/china-is-right-behind-us-jensen-huang-says-we-need-to-accelerate-the-diffusion-of-american-ai-technology-around-the-world\/\">pleas for the country<\/a> to &#8220;accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world,&#8221; it seems unlikely the US will ease up on restrictions. This, of course, will eat into the company&#8217;s profits; it&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-could-lose-usd5-5-billion-to-charges-after-new-indefinite-restriction-on-exports-of-beefy-ai-gpus-to-china\/\">already said<\/a> that, as a result of chip licensing restrictions, &#8220;first quarter results are expected to include up to approximately $5.5 billion of charges associated with H20 products for inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-denies-tall-tales-that-chips-are-being-smuggled-in-fake-baby-bumps-and-alongside-live-lobsters\/\">Nvidia&#8217;s denial of &#8216;tall tales&#8217;<\/a> of China&#8217;s extravagant smuggling operations, there does seem to be reason for the US to worry. We&#8217;ve already seen that restricted chips have ended up in China&#8217;s hands, a fact that might, for instance, already cost TSMC over $1 billion after <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/processors\/tsmc-might-have-to-fork-over-usd1-billion-to-the-us-for-allegedly-breaking-export-rules-after-one-of-its-chips-was-found-in-a-huawei-processor\/\">one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor<\/a>. And when Nvidia is saying that &#8220;China is right behind us&#8221; in the AI race, it&#8217;s no wonder US lawmakers are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Whether to restrict exports is a policy issue, however. What&#8217;s in question here is implementation: How can the US ensure export restrictions are adhered to?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Peak Storage<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"SuBX8T6UpU5eZVXzzxjwMY\" name=\"PCG289.ssd_js.Open.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"SATA, NVMe M.2, and PCIe SSDs on blue background\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-ssd-for-gaming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best SSD for gaming<\/strong><\/a>: The best speedy storage today.<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-nvme-ssd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best NVMe SSD<\/strong><\/a>: Compact M.2 drives.<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-external-hard-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best external hard drives<\/strong><\/a>: Huge capacities for less.<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-external-ssd-for-game-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best external SSDs<\/strong><\/a>: Plug-in storage upgrades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest planned bill would propose tracking as a solution to this problem, which would apparently mean having the chips communicate with a server that measures how long it takes for the signal to travel back to it. This would then give the US a rough idea of where the chip is, ie, which country it&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p>Remote disablement would, of course, be a different story. It&#8217;s hard to imagine how such a thing could work in practice in a way that couldn&#8217;t be circumvented. But I&#8217;m also sure the state&#8217;s technological capabilities when it comes to national security are far beyond what we would normally assume, so perhaps it wouldn&#8217;t be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>While part of me is sceptical that any measures such as this, even if implemented well, could make it impossible for China to get its hands on working chips, I suppose the US would just have to make it difficult enough that the country stops bothering trying to do so. Which might work out the best all-round, considering <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/30\/economy\/china-economy-five-year-plan-intl-hnk\">China seems to want to move away from reliance on US tech<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia might be the only loser in the arrangement. But somehow I think the chip behemoth\u2014currently the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/companiesmarketcap.com\/\">third biggest company in the world<\/a> after Apple and Microsoft\u2014will be just fine. Jensen Huang won&#8217;t have to give up his <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/humanoid-robot-neo-gamma-gifts-nvidia-ceo-a-studded-leather-jacket-and-may-even-be-able-to-one-day-wash-up-a-cup-without-dropping-it\/\">shiny jackets<\/a> any time soon.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very strange thing that happens when an industry starts to become incredibly relevant to national security: There&#8217;s talk of spy movie-sounding tech like tracking and remote disablement. And no, I&#8217;m not talking about PC gaming\u2014this is, of course, about Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips and the potential that they could end up in China&#8217;s hands. According to Reuters, such remote tracking and disablement might actually be on the cards, if a bill planned by Democrat Representative Bill Foster comes into effect. The bill would have AI chips like Nvidia&#8217;s be made in such a way that the country could keep a rough track of where they end up, and potentially even prevent them from booting if they&#8217;re tracked to a restricted country. Foster tells Reuters&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/one-us-politician-wants-to-add-trackers-to-nvidias-graphics-cards-so-they-can-be-bricked-if-they-end-up-in-china\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[791,66],"class_list":["post-1195156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-graphics-cards","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia&#039;s graphics cards so they can be bricked if they end up in China | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s a very 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