Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.” Foster, a Democrat who serves on the Committee on…
Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility
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