Bipartisan bill to enforce export controls could face pushback from AI chip company

Legislation introduced to prevent the circumvention of export controls through a technical location verification mechanism is poised to divide two powerful segments of the U.S. artificial intelligence industry, with frontier AI model developers on one side and chip designer NVIDIA on the other.

The Chip Security Act calls for the Secretary of Commerce within six months of enactment to "require any covered integrated circuit product to be outfitted with chip security mechanisms that implement location verification, using techniques that...