Nvidia says in blog post its chips have no backdoors, no kill switches

In a blog post, the company wrote, “NVIDIA (NVDA) GPUs are at the heart of modern computing… To mitigate the risk of misuse, some pundits and policymakers propose requiring hardware “kill switches” or built-in controls that can remotely disable GPUs without user knowledge and consent. Some suspect they might already exist. NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors… Embedding backdoors and kill switches into chips would be a gift to hackers and hostile actors. It would undermine global digital infrastructure and fracture trust in U.S. technology. Established law wisely requires companies to fix vulnerabilities – not create them… Kill switches and built-in backdoors create single points of failure and violate the fundamental principles of cybersecurity… There are no back doors in NVIDIA chips. No kill switches. No spyware. That’s not how trustworthy systems are built – and never will be.”