In a bid to detect and disrupt the diversion of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, the United States government is reportedly discreetly embedding location-tracking devices in select shipments.

U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people with direct knowledge of the previously unreported law enforcement tactic.

Trackers were placed in the packaging and sometimes inside servers from Dell and Super Micro, according to Reuters.