Overview

• Nvidia’s Chief Security Officer published a bilingual blog post categorically denying any kill switches or backdoors in its GPUs and urging U.S. lawmakers to abandon proposals for hardware-level controls.
• Bipartisan bills in Congress and White House recommendations are still under review to require location verification and potential shutdown features in exported advanced AI chips.
• China’s Cyberspace Administration summoned Nvidia representatives over alleged spyware and remote-shutdown risks in the H20 chips, prompting the firm’s public rebuttal.
• Nvidia and security specialists argue that embedding permanent backdoors or kill switches would introduce single points of failure, inviting exploitation by hackers and hostile actors.
• The debate underscores intensifying U.S.–China competition for AI hardware dominance and the rapid evolution of export-control policies on semiconductors.