Nvidia CEO Huang reassures the Chinese: 'Our H20 chips are not a security threat'

Nvidia's H20 chip shipments to China have been 'a good thing' for Beijing and Washington, and pose 'no security threat'. Jensen Huang, the Californian company's number one, reiterated, speaking in Taipei, that the H20, a less powerful version of the Ai processing unit and developed ad hoc for the Mandarin market at Washington's behest for national security reasons, 'did not pose a national security problem'. Huang, in the local media report, insisted that there were no 'security backdoors' in the H20 chips to allow remote access, after China had summoned company representatives to discuss security-related issues.

"We have made it clear and reiterated that H2O has no security backdoors, there is no such thing, there never has been, and so we hope that the response we gave the Chinese government is sufficient," Huang reiterated. The Californian company, the world's leading manufacturer of semiconductors for artificial intelligence, became in July the first company in the world to exceed USD 4 trillion in market capitalisation, despite trade tensions between China and the US.