US plans to track AI chips abroad using location verification technology to curb smuggling to China; House bill would require ping-based systems and inspections for high-end GPUs after $300M smuggling arrest.

Find My AI Chips: the US Plans to Track GPUs Abroad

In a bid to limit China’s AI capabilities, the United States imposed restrictions in 2022 on the export of certain advanced chips to China. But throughout the AI boom those chips have kept turning up in China anyway.On 1 October 2026, the U.S. arrested a man on charges of sending over $300 million worth of GPU-equipped servers to China using paperwork intended for shipments to Malaysia and Singapore. As chip smuggling and diversion continues, the United States is learning that the more it tries ...