U.S. Senator wants high-end graphics chips to have mandatory geolocation

This one is may be geolocated to a landfill.

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R—Arkansas) introduced a bill that would require manufacturers of high-end graphics processors (i.e. Nvidia, but also AMD, Intel and Apple) to include geotracking technology in them. This would allow the government to track them at all times post-manufacture and "prevent unauthorized foreign access to sensitive technology." — Read the rest

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