US plans to legislate requiring chip giants to track the location of graphics cards to prevent technology from flowing into sanctioned countries.

May 13, according to the technology website Tom's Hardware reported, the United States Congress is drafting a new bill that requires chip manufacturers including NVIDIA (Nvidia), Intel (Intel), and AMD to track the location of every graphics card. Once a graphics card is found in a sanctioned country, the manufacturer will have the right to disable it remotely.

In order to achieve this, lawmakers want to embed a geographic positioning system in the graphics cards to precisely control their usage scope. The purpose of the bill is to "prevent advanced American chips from falling into the hands of adversaries."

This measure mainly targets China and other sanctioned countries. The United States hopes to use this method to prevent them from developing artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capabilities.

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