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Chip giant Nvidia In response to the allegations of Chinese state media that H20 artificial intelligence chips had a national security risk for China, it was back on Sunday.
In the early hours of the day, Reuters said that Yuyuan Tandian, a Chinese state publisher CCTV account, said that Nvidia H20 chips are not technologically advanced or environmentally friendly in an article on Wechat.
“A kind of chip is neither environmentally friendly, nor developed, nor safe, consumers, when we have the option to buy it,” Yuyuan said in his article.
In contrast, a NVIDIA spokesman CNBC said, “Cyber security has critical importance for us. Nvidia’s chips do not have a ‘backdoors’ that will give a way to access or control anyone.”
The NVIDIA rejected Chinese charges on Tuesday, and AI chips contain a hardware function that can remotely disable chips, also known as the “Killing Key”.
Tensions between the US and China in semiconductor export controls have increased in recent weeks even after the Nvidia’s H20 chip continued to sell to China. The Chinese state media fram the H20 chip lower and dangerously compared to other chips of Nvidia.
The company’s restarting H20 posts reversed a previous ban on H20 sales by the Trump administration in April. For example, NVIDIA’s H20 chips-for example, a less developed semiconductor compared to the flagship H100 and B100 chips was developed by NVIDIA for the Chinese market after the first export restrictions on developed AI chips at the end of 2023.
US export controls on some NVIDIA chips stem from national security concerns that Beijing can use more advanced chips to obtain a broad advantage in AI and military practices.
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In the meantime, Chinese officials, US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping before a possible summit before a trade agreement as part of a trade agreement forced the US high bandwidth memory chips to facilitate export controls, forcing to facilitate export controls Financial Times Reported On Sunday, referring to people familiar with the subject.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, supported Trump’s policies while lining for export licenses for the H20 AI chip. Huang said that Nvidia wanted to send more advanced chips to China, and that Nvidia has become a global standard for AI calculation.
China is one of the biggest markets in Nvidia. In May, Nvidia received a Writedown of $ 4.5 billion on the unprocessed H20 inventory, and warned that high -level guidance for the July quarter would be higher than $ 8 billion without chip export restrictions.
NVIDIA shares increased by 1% from $ 182.70 on Friday and increased by 36% this year.
