Nvidia posts a long message for China with an appeal to the US government, says: There is no such thing as good ...

Time of India

7 days ago

Nvidia has now shared a long message for China along with an appeal to the US government regarding the allegations of hidden security vulnerabilities in its
H20 AI chips
. Recently, a Bloomberg report revealed that the Chinese government officials summoned Nvidia representatives over alleged security risks related to Nvidia H20 AI chips.
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The Cyberspace Administration of China issued a statement regarding the same. The statement said that the chips had been exposed to serious security issues. Now a report by Reuters reveal that Nvidia has confirmed that its chips do not have backdoor entry. Now, Nvidia has publicly asserted that its chips contain "no backdoors, no kill switches, and no spyware." The chipset major's chief security Officer David Reber has made this declaration via a blog post.
Nvidia responds to China's 'backdoor' security concerns in H20
In a blog post shared, Nvidia's chief security officer David Reber has vehemently denied the accusations of Chinese government alleging security risks in H20. 'There is no such thing as a 'good' secret backdoor — only dangerous vulnerabilities that need to be eliminated,' wrote Reber in the blog post. He argued that it would "undermine global digital infrastructure and fracture trust in US technology.
Amidst proposals from the White House and both houses of Congress to require U.S.
chip firms to include location verification technology in chips to prevent diversion to restricted countries, Nvidia warned against such measures. Reber likened a mandated kill switch to "buying a car where the dealership keeps a remote control for the parking brake — just in case they decide you shouldn't be driving," calling it "an overreaction that would irreparably harm America's economic and
national security interests
."
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Why Nvidia is pushing back
For those unaware, chips from Nvidia power everything ranging from CT scanners and air-traffic systems to supercomputers and autonomous vehicles. The company argues that putting a backdoor or kill switch in the chipset would create single points of failure, undermine the trust in American technology and also lead to exploitation by hackers.
In the blog post shared, Nvidia also have an example of Clipper chip initiative of the 1990s.
With this initiative the government agencies were given backdoor access to the encrypted communications but was later abandoned due to security risks.
'Hardwiring a kill switch into a chip is like buying a car where the dealership keeps a remote control for the parking brake,' the company said. 'That's not sound policy.'