The logo of Nvidia Corporation is seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan May 30, 2017. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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.
