NVIDIA Responds to "Backdoor" Concerns
【River Financial News】August 6th, NVIDIA published a long text titled "_NVIDIA Chips Do Not Exist Backdoors, Kill Switches, and Monitoring Software_."
The article states that there is no such thing as a "good" backdoor, only dangerous vulnerabilities that must be thoroughly eliminated. There are no backdoors, kill switches, or monitoring software in NVIDIA chips. These are not ways to build trustworthy systems and never will be.
NVIDIA GPUs are the core of modern computing and are widely used in industries such as healthcare, finance, scientific research, autonomous driving systems, and AI infrastructure, including CT scanners, MRI machines, DNA sequencers, air traffic radar tracking systems, city traffic management systems, self-driving cars, supercomputers, TV broadcasting systems, and game consoles.
To reduce the risk of misuse, some experts and policymakers have suggested that a "kill switch" or built-in controls should be set up in hardware to allow for remote disabling of GPUs without user knowledge or consent. Some people suspect that such situations already exist. NVIDIA GPUs do not exist or should not set up kill switches and backdoors.
The article mentions that some people view the "Find My Phone" or "Remote Wipe" functions on smart phones as a model for GPU kill switch. This analogy does not stand, because software functions are completely controlled by users and are not hardware backdoors.
On July 31st, according to _China Internet News_, recently NVIDIA's algorithmic chip was exposed to have serious security problems. Prior to this, US lawmakers urged that advanced chips exported from the US must be equipped with "tracking and positioning" functions. An expert in American artificial intelligence revealed that NVIDIA's algorithmic chip has matured in terms of "tracking and positioning" and "remote closure" technology.
To maintain Chinese user network security, data security, and personal information protection, according to the _Network Security Law_, _Data Security Law_, and _Personal Information Protection Law_ provisions, the National Internet Information Office contacted NVIDIA on July 31st, requiring that the company explain and submit relevant proof materials regarding the vulnerabilities and backdoors of H20 algorithmic chips sold in China.
On July 15th, NVIDIA founder and CEO Huang Rong Hong attended the Third China International Supply Chain Promotion Exhibition and stated, "The US government has approved our export permit, so we can start shipping. So, we will begin selling H20 to the Chinese market." I am very excited to ship out H20 soon."