A Reuters report has unveiled that the US government has been discreetly installing trackers in select shipments of technology products equipped with AI chips, with the intent of preventing these products from being diverted to China. It is noted that the deployment of these trackers sometimes necessitates merely administrative clearance. Companies such as Dell and Supermicro, which offer servers incorporating NVIDIA chips, may have been aware of this practice, yet none have issued a public response. Currently, the application of trackers directly onto individual chips is not feasible due to the heightened complexity involved in chip-level monitoring technology.
