Democratic lawmakers aren't the only ones worried about Nvidia selling cutting-edge AI chips to China. Ironically, the Chinese government is concerned, too.
On Thursday, the Cyberspace Administration of China flagged Nvidia's H20 AI GPU as a potential spying risk, after Nvidia secured White House approval to sell the product in China. It summoned Nvidia to discuss its concerns about the H20 containing “backdoors.”
In a statement, the agency noted that US lawmakers have floated a bill to require Nvidia to install location-tracking technology on high-end GPUs — to help prevent the technology from falling into the hands of “adversaries like Communist China."
In response, Nvidia tells PCMag: "Cybersecurity is critically important to us. Nvidia does not have 'backdoors' in our chips that would give anyone a remote way to access or control them."
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