{"id":177999,"date":"2025-12-10T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177999\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:59:07","slug":"nvidia-is-reportedly-testing-tracking-software-as-chip-smuggling-rumors-swirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177999\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia is\u00a0reportedly testing\u00a0tracking software as chip-smuggling\u00a0rumors swirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nvidia is allegedly testing software that can track the location of its AI chips as reports of its chips being smuggled into China are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nvidia has built location verification technology that would allow it to track which country a chip is located in, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/nvidia-builds-location-verification-tech-that-could-help-fight-chip-smuggling-2025-12-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">originally reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources. This software tracks computing performance but the delay in communication between servers also offers a sense of a chip\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This software will be optional for customers to use and will be made available for Blackwell chips first, Reuters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple reports have surfaced in the last few days that allege China\u2019s DeepSeek AI models have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-10\/china-s-deepseek-uses-banned-nvidia-chips-for-ai-model-the-information-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">trained on smuggled Nvidia Blackwell chips<\/a>. Nvidia responded to these reports by saying it hasn\u2019t seen evidence of this type of smuggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen any substantiation or received tips of \u2018phantom data centers\u2019 constructed to deceive us and our OEM partners, then deconstructed, smuggled, and reconstructed somewhere else. While such smuggling seems far-fetched, we pursue any tip we receive,\u201d an Nvidia spokesperson told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This news comes just days after Nvidia got the green light from the U.S. government to start selling its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/08\/department-of-commerce-may-approve-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-to-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">H200 AI chips to approved customers<\/a> in China on Monday. That announcement pertains only to older H200 chips and not the company\u2019s Blackwell chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia is allegedly testing software that can track the location of its AI chips as reports of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,15782,363,364,113879,1039,5941,111,139,1042,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-177999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chips","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-chip-smuggling","13":"tag-chips","14":"tag-in-brief","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nvidia","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}