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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Why do gpus need geo tracking? They're usually pretty stationary right?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Because China supposedly used Nvidia cards to train DeepSeek, which blew all of the US AI out of the water. And apparently that raised some eyebrows, because Nvidia wasn’t supposed to be selling to China (free market, right?). Since China was eating big tech’s lunch, they cried to republicans (and gave them a bunch of reelection money) and now we have this bill. The point is to be able to remotely disable cards if they’re outside of their sale region.

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