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Nvidia Tech Tracks Smuggled AI Chips Globally
11 Dec, 2025
Summary
- Nvidia is developing software to track AI chip locations.
- Reports allege smuggled Nvidia chips trained Chinese AI models.
- New tracking software will be optional for Blackwell chips.
Nvidia is allegedly developing location verification technology to track its AI chips, responding to concerns about their potential smuggling into China. This new software monitors computing performance and server communication delays to indicate a chip's location, according to anonymous sources.
The tracking feature will be optional for customers and is slated for release with the company's Blackwell chips. This development follows recent reports alleging that Chinese AI models, such as DeepSeek, have been trained using smuggled Nvidia Blackwell chips.
Nvidia has publicly stated it has not found evidence to substantiate these smuggling claims. This news emerges shortly after Nvidia received U.S. government approval to sell its H200 AI chips to authorized clients in China, though this approval does not extend to the newer Blackwell series.
