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.

DOJ said the defendants illegally exported millions of dollars' worth of advanced chips and other technology to China from October 2022 through July 2025. The illicit shipments included Nvidia's advanced H100 general processing units,

Two Chinese nationals were arrested this week on charges that they sent tens of millions of dollars worth of advanced AI chips made by Nvidia Corp. to China in violation of US export restrictions, according to authorities.

Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang are accused of exporting the chips from the US to China through Singapore and Malaysia.