Comment by Dmitri Alperovitch

The idea behind CSA is not to prevent chips from working in banned locations like China but to simply expose more data to exporters of chips (and ultimately Bureau of Industry and Security-U.S. Department of Commerce) on their end-users to enhance investigations of transshipping violators. The most important thing about the Chip Security Act and why it’s different from other proposals is that it is an investigative tool for enforcement, not an enforcement mechanism on its own. CSA won’t solve every problem and it’s not full-proof (evasions can still occur although will be harder to pull off) but it does provide additional resources to identify malign actors that have gone undetected in opaque supply networks.