Everything has a backdoor! One of the many reasons why everything should be opensource
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The CAC did not specify which experts had found a back door in Nvidia’s products or whether any tests in China had uncovered the same results. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If you're going to make such a claim, you have to provide details.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the CCP's method for protecting the growth and development of local alternatives.
USA has made similar claims against China, for instance Huawei and Chinese cars, and never been able to show anything.
USA even made most of the world stop using Huawei in their infrastructure based on unproven claims!
That's why I think that this as attempt by the CCP to protect local industries.
I am assuming that if H20 becomes openly available in China, local enterprise GPUs will find it difficult to compete.
China very much want Nvidia chips, but they have to work around American sanctions. So Nvidia has to make chips specifically to China. AFAIK this has been negotiated at the highest level between China and Nvidia.
I find you theory extremely unlikely, as China absolutely wants MORE Nvidia chips for AI development not fewer.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the CCP’s method for protecting the growth and development of local alternatives.
Do you have any reason to believe that there ISN'T any backdoors? From my standpoint this claim sounds like "water is liquid". Of course there are backdoors. Just some particular backdoor may be engineered specially for China. Other backdoors are just for less important countries.
Content aside, your request it to prove a negative, which is impossible.
But CCP authorities claimed that:
It said US AI experts had “revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut down the technology.”
Which experts? Considering the CCP claims its American experts, there shouldn't be an issue with linking the research.