China State Press Challenges Nvidia: 'Prove H20 AI Chips Are Secure

China state media is calling for Nvidia Corp. to prove that its H20 chip is secure, saying it can’t allow flawed chips into the country.

China’s top internet watchdog summoned Nvidia representatives earlier this week to discuss what Chinese officials called significant security vulnerabilities in the H20. The Cyberspace Administration of China said that Nvidia would need to explain potential security risks and provide documents as needed, citing comments by US lawmakers about the need to install tracking capabilities on advanced chips being exported.

“As soon as ‘backdoors’ in chips are triggered, we can encounter a ‘nightmare,’” the People’s Daily, a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, said in a commentary on Friday. “We need to maintain the security of the cyberspace and we cannot allow ‘infected’ chips to be put to work.”