A social media account belonging to Chinese official media said today (10th) that the H20 chip has a security concern about China's structure, and Beijing has previously felt worried about the possible backdoor access problems of the chip. The a...
A social media account belonging to Chinese official media said today (10th) that the H20 chip has a security concern about China's structure, and Beijing has previously felt worried about the possible backdoor access problems of the chip.
The account is named "Yujing Yantian", which belongs to China Central Radio Television Station (CCTV). It also posted on WeChat that the H20 chip is not technologically advanced or environmentally friendly.
The article mentioned that computing power is also power to a certain extent, and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) will add a lot of new energy demand. These new needs also need to meet the rhythm of China's green color transformation. From this perspective, H20 is certainly not a good choice. "When a chip is neither environmentally friendly nor advanced, nor safe, as consumers, we can certainly choose and not buy it."
NVIDIA has not responded to this yet.
H20 AI chips are specially developed by NVIDIA for the Chinese market after the United States imposed export restrictions on advanced AI chips by the end of 2023. As U.S.-China trade tensions rose, the Trump administration, the US President, banned the sales of the chip in April and then withdrew the ban in July.
The China Network said on July 31 that it had convened an NVIDIA meeting to ask the American chip manufacturer to explain whether its H20 chips have rear door safety risks, which is a hidden way to overcome normal identity verification or security control. NVIDIA also emphasizes that the company's products do not have any "back door" that can be accessed or controlled from a distance.
Yujing Yutian claimed in the article that NVIDIA's chips can use the hardware "back door" to realize functions such as "remote switch". At the same time, a review article in People's Daily earlier this month pointed out that British Viagra must provide a "convincing security certificate" to eliminate doubts about Chinese users' security risks and win back into the market.
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