Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, the company confirmed on Wednesday , a move that could help prevent its artificial intelligence chips from being smuggled into countries where their export is banned.
The feature, which Nvidia has demonstrated privately in recent months but has not yet released, would be a software option that customers could install. It would tap into what are known as the confidential computing capabilities of its graphics processing units GPUs.
The software was built to allow customers to track a chips overall computing performance - a common practice among companies that buy fleets of processors for large data centers - and would use the time delay in communicating with servers run by Nvidia to give a sense of the chips location on par with what other internet-based services can provide, according to an Nvidia official.
