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FCC Uses New Chip Authority to Block Two Gadgets

October 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM EDT · New York time

The FCC is first exercising authority it gave itself Oct. 13 to block gadgets containing chips made by companies on its national-security threat list. It is blocking two devices containing what the agency calls “foreign surveillance chips,” The Verge reported. That characterization belongs to the FCC, not an independently established finding about every use of those components. The rule makes a product’s internal suppliers consequential to regulatory clearance. A sleek outer casing no longer ends the discussion: the gadget must also introduce the companies hiding inside its family tree.

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