Seems to make sense at a surface level. US bans chip exports to China. Then suddenly this one's okay, for some inexplicable reason?? And then also our government loves accusing other countries of doing what we are already doing

Can't wait for this to be generalized so that Easy Anti-Cheat or PunkBuster tell EA or Bethesda to lock your GPU because their faulty launcher detected you tried to play offline twice.

Initially preventing "bad guys" (really big quotes here) to do "bag things" (AFAICT it's mostly lame LLMs, not actual dangerous military stuff, which for those they actually already have supercomputers allocated) sounds like a good idea... until it inexorably tricky down (unlike money and power) to citizens worldwide.

I don't think remotely control CPUs or GPUs can end well for citizens. It won't be PC as in Personal Computer, rather remotely controlled terminals for whomever is in power.

Oooh spicy!! I wonder how much infra in China is powered by these chips

This doesn't really make sense. Why would your computer give the GPU / NPU access to GPS location? Unless Nvidia is somehow embedding GPS sensors in their chips - which would be obvious to Chinese cybersecurity - this should be a simple software fix. Intel Management Engine is a genuine risk, but I think China has banned / restricted Intel CPUs already.