Nvidia has published a blog post reiterating that its chips did not have backdoors or kill switches and appealed to U.S. policymakers to forgo such ideas saying it would be a "gift" to hackers and hostile actors.

Nvidia has pushed back against China’s claims that its AI chips come with built-in kill switches or hidden backdoors. On Tuesday, the company’s Chief Security Officer, David Reber, wrote, “NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors,

As US–China tech tensions deepen, a senior US official said the Trump Administration is pushing to embed advanced tracking features into semiconductors to prevent Nvidia and other US-made chips from being diverted to China.