Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) on Tuesday reiterated that its chips do not contain backdoors or kill switches, describing it as a "gift" to hackers and hostile actors. The statement comes a week after the Chinese government summoned the U.

China is accusing Nvidia of embedding a hardware function that can remotely deactivate the microchips and processors it ships to the Asian nation, referring to it as a “kill switch.” Nvidia’s management team was quick to refute the claim, writing in a blog post that “NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.”

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.