- America could soon tackle redirected and abused advanced chips with geotracking
- The proposed legislation could enforce tracking within 6 months
- Manufacturers also had to report back to USA
New proposed legislation in Congress could see the United States integrate geotracking capabilities within advanced GPUs that mark the introduction of more dynamic ways to monitor exports rather than just rugs.
Bipartisan lawmakers introduced the Chip Security Act to prevent advanced GPUs and AI chips from reaching out to worrying lands, such as China.
Currently in review, if adopted, exporters would have to comply with new tracking rules while reporting violations, such as disabled tracking, back to the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
US could introduce advanced Chip Tracking Measures
“After 180 days after the date of adoption of this Act, the Secretary shall require that any covered integrated circuit product be equipped with chip security mechanisms implementing placement verification using techniques that are feasible and appropriate on such a statutes before exporting, re-developing or in the country, which is transferred to or in a foreign country.
Legislators cite national security risks and concerns about the smuggling of networks and shell companies exporting US chips to China illegally as key trees to the tracking proposals.
“I know we have the technical tools to prevent powerful AI technology from coming into the wrong hands. With advanced AI chips that are smuggled into China and pose a national security risk, Congress must act,” added congressman Bill Foster (D-I).
Location sharing must be activated and supported before the chips are exported if the bill is adopted, with the trade secretary must be held responsible for assessing the second -level security mechanisms to prevent abuse or derivation of chips covered by the proposed rules.
The bill follows the Trump administration’s removal of the Biden-Era chip export diffusion rules, where the White House promised renewed export restrictions that do not affect allies.
