A Chinese state-affiliated social media account on Aug. 10 urged companies to avoid buying Nvidia’s H20 graphics processing units, or GPUs, over an alleged backdoor feature embedded in those 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.
It also alleged the chips have a “license locking” function that could render them invalid if any violations by the user were detected, as well as a “tracking and positioning” feature that could enable active queries and limit a targeted chip’s operation to a certain area….
Chinese State Media Urges Companies to Avoid Buying Nvidia H20 Chips
