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Cale Hunt

“Some Suspect They Might Already Exist” — NVIDIA’s Chief Security Officer Doubles Down on the Lack of Kill Switches, Backdoors, and Spyware in Its GPUs

BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 01: In this photo illustration, an Nvidia chip is seen through a magnifying glass on August 1, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images).

The US government announced it was rescinding the ban on NVIDIA selling H20 AI GPUs to China on July 14, 2025, and since then, the company has been scrambling to kickstart supply chains, appease international governments, and take a massive volume of orders for the specialized chips.

I covered NVIDIA needing 300,000 more H20 AI chips from TSMC to meet the newfound Chinese demand following the ban reversal, and that was on top of the stockpile of 600,000 to 700,000 H20 chips already waiting to be sold.

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