Nvidia pledges no backdoors, kill switches, or spyware in its products following accusations from China’s Cyberspace Administration regarding vulnerabilities in its H20 GPUs. The company emphasized that introducing such features would harm global data security and trust in U.S. technology. U.S. lawmakers are contemplating a Chip Security Act to enforce guidelines for chip exports, which may include mechanisms like kill switches. Nvidia's GPUs are widely used, raising concerns about the risks of potential hardware backdoors as noted in historical security breaches such as the Clipper Chip Debacle.
"Embedding backdoors and kill switches into chips would be a gift to hackers and hostile actors," Reber wrote. "It would undermine global data infrastructure and fracture trust in U.S. technology. Established law wisely requires companies to fix vulnerabilities--not create them."
The Cyberspace Administration of China's concerns stem specifically from the Nvidia's H20 GPU, which is made for the Chinese market and designed to comply with US export guidelines.
Reber cites the 'Clipper Chip Debacle,' in which the NSA and U.S. government pushed for a chip to be installed in telecommunications devices that would allow backdoor access through an encrypted key.
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