China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market
China’s cyber regulator on Thursday said it had held a meeting with Nvidia over what it called “serious security issues” with the company’s artificial intelligence chips.
It said US AI experts had “revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut down the technology.”
The Cyberspace Administration of China requested that Nvidia explain the security problems associated with the H20 chip, which was designed for the Chinese market to comply with US export restrictions, and submit documentation to support their case. The announcement comes as Nvidia is rebuilding its China business after Washington this month lifted a ban on H20 sales to the country.
China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market
US semiconductor giant is trying to revive sales in the country.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Can't wait for this to be generalized so that Easy Anti-Cheat or PunkBuster tell EA or Bethesda to lock your GPU because their faulty launcher detected you tried to play offline twice.
Initially preventing "bad guys" (really big quotes here) to do "bag things" (AFAICT it's mostly lame LLMs, not actual dangerous military stuff, which for those they actually already have supercomputers allocated) sounds like a good idea... until it inexorably tricky down (unlike money and power) to citizens worldwide.
I don't think remotely control CPUs or GPUs can end well for citizens. It won't be PC as in Personal Computer, rather remotely controlled terminals for whomever is in power.
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in reply to emergencyfood • • •It might be China trying to force their own companies to use Chinese hardware. I heavily doubt that it would include a GPS chip. At most some way to guess the location by combining many different types of information such as nearby routers /WiFi networks etc.
There are crafty ways to guess a location without GPS. Though I have no idea what this one would entail if at all true.
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