Worried about the Lebanese BB machine incident! China orders NVIDIA to submit documents, eliminating all loopholes and backdoors

In recent times, the security risks of NVIDIA's computing chips have once again drawn global attention. The Wall Street Journal revealed that NVIDIA has mastered mature "tracking and positioning" and "remote shutdown" technologies, which can allow real-time monitoring and operation of advanced chips exported by it.

This technology was previously viewed by the U.S. as a "technical containment tool"—previously, several U.S. congressmen had jointly called for all advanced chips exported to China to be embedded with "geopolitical tracking" functions, ensuring that "sensitive technologies are not used for military or unauthorized purposes."

However, the dual-edged nature of technology is evident here: if you can remotely shut down, you can also remotely activate; if you can track and locate, you can also steal data. The "BB machine incident" in Lebanon in 2024 has already sounded a warning bell for the world—according to the Lebanese Daily Star, a key infrastructure suffered a system outage at a specific time due to the use of chips controlled by foreign entities, and subsequent investigations showed that it was directly related to the "silent mode" triggered by remote commands.

Facing potential risks, Chinese regulatory authorities have acted swiftly and firmly, formally interviewed NVIDIA, requiring it to submit detailed explanations regarding the vulnerabilities and backdoors of its H20 computing chips sold to China, including but not limited to: whether there are undisclosed remote control interfaces in the chip firmware; whether the data transmission encryption protocol has third-party access channels; and whether non-authorized operations have occurred in historical versions of the chips.

In 2024, network attack incidents caused by chip security vulnerabilities in our country increased by 37% compared to the previous year, with attacks involving AI computing chips accounting for 29%, causing direct economic losses exceeding 12 billion yuan.

Although regulation can build a "firewall," the fundamental solution lies in independent innovation. In recent years, China has made significant breakthroughs in the field of computing chips: Technologically, Huawei's Ascend 910B chip has achieved mass production using 7nm process technology, with AI computing power reaching 256 TFLOPS (FP16), comparable to NVIDIA's H20; the DCU chips from HaiKang Information have increased their market share in servers from 8% in 2022 to 23% in Q1 of 2025.

The "sudden release" and "compliant sales" of NVIDIA's H20 chip may appear to be market actions, but they actually reflect the complex game of global computing power competition. However, historical experience has shown that relying on external technology always carries the risk of "supply interruption," and only by mastering core technologies can one truly grasp the initiative in development.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1839222120309772/

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