Nvidia Corporation underlined on Tuesday that its GPUs do not and should not have "kill switches and backdoors."
In a statement, the tech giant explained that embedding these into semiconductors "would be a gift to hackers and hostile actors," as more vulnerabilities would be created, adding that this would undermine global digital infrastructure and "fracture trust in US technology."
"There is no such thing as a 'good' secret backdoor - only dangerous vulnerabilities that need to be eliminated. Product security must always be done the right way ... Hardwiring a kill switch into a chip [would be] a permanent flaw beyond user control, and an open invitation for disaster," Nvidia stressed.
