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.
Everything has a backdoor! One of the many reasons why everything should be opensource
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.
Oooh spicy!! I wonder how much infra in China is powered by these chips
This doesn't really make sense. Why would your computer give the GPU / NPU access to GPS location? Unless Nvidia is somehow embedding GPS sensors in their chips - which would be obvious to Chinese cybersecurity - this should be a simple software fix. Intel Management Engine is a genuine risk, but I think China has banned / restricted Intel CPUs already.
Seems to make sense at a surface level. US bans chip exports to China. Then suddenly this one's okay, for some inexplicable reason?? And then also our government loves accusing other countries of doing what we are already doing
Oh no, poor China!
Lol isn't that just standard protocol for every chip vendor now including Chinese vendors?
The more you buy the more you save!
bill that would require chipmakers such as Nvidia to embed location tracking into export-controlled hardware
How does this work?
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