Chinese State Media Urges Companies to Avoid Buying Nvidia H20 Chips
Yuyuan Tantian, an account affiliated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and China Media Group, stated on the microblogging platform Weibo that H20 chips have a backdoor feature that could enable 'remote shutdown,' a feature that could allow Nvidia to remotely access and disable the chips.
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