Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling

Posted by pella 3 hours ago

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Comment by pella 3 hours ago

https://archive.md/e8MEX

Comment by davydm 3 hours ago

awesome - lean into the privacy leaks

if this feature ever makes it to consumer-grade gpus (and why wouldn't it?) I hope someone smart figures out how to cripple/disable it.

Comment by ReptileMan 2 hours ago

>The software was built to allow customers to track a chip's 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 chip's location on par with what other internet-based services can provide, according to an Nvidia official.

just a firewall will do