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AMD & Nvidia are American companies, for better or worse. The Taiwanese just make the chips, they don't actually decide what they look like...

Add a GPS receiver onto every GPU? Add an inertial navigation module to every GPU? Add a radio to every GPU? :D

if it's possible, which I agree with you, is highly unlikely, i'd assume it'd be something like html canvas fingerprinting. Rather than adding more stuff to the gpu, the gpu could be made to generate a specific fingerprint. I recon it'd be a very easy task for the hardware vendors.

Heck, there might be other ways we don't even know yet, kinda like the glowy ethernet port. I could see that working very easily in conjunction to the GPU.

In the real world, you can prevent a chip from knowing where it's running and you can't add random shit onto a chip, and if someone does, you can stop buying bugged hardware or prevent that random addition from getting a reading.

please read up on intel management engine and amd's equivelent. That shit runs on your system in ring minus 3. Oh yeah, ARM also has something similar.

China is also making it's own x86 cpus, but I bet they're laced with more spyware than the above.

You honestly have virtually 0 other cpu options. Everything is bugged... Who would you buy from in this case? It's virtually unavoidable :/

If politicians had advisors then how would they justify doing the dumb shit their owners want them to, then they can't plead ignorance.

How about locking all the advanced functions behind a hardware lock that requires an online key to unlock? Besides getting an IP address for geolocation, this approach would enable manufacturers to put a subscription on the features as well. Require users to provide a government issued ID that matches the name on the credit card used.

VPN! I hear you cry. But the driver is already running pretty close to the hardware, so good luck hiding a VPN client.

So while you can't guarantee a street address accuracy, you can get country and overall regional subdivision.

It's about not letting them be used in China, and any other future enemy countries.

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.

Nvidia, Intel, and AMD are all American companies. Yes, their GPUs are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan but they just follow the designs given to them. The layout of these GPUs and the architecture of the chips are all designed and controlled by these American corporations.