Is it possible that these two chips have hardware trojans in them?

You only need to read a bit further...

    The RDSEED instruction is intended for seeding a software PRNG of arbitrary width, whereas the RDRAND is intended for applications that merely require high-quality random numbers.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. AMD's processors got much better, more people started buying them, the stock went up.

Re: another of my comments it is that bit about the stock market which got me to think that this is about psychiatry instead of technology.

I can't entirely discount even the most egregious possibilities of backdoors in software and hardware constrained by: (1) the difficulty of maintaining a conspiracy with a large number of conspirators (the number of people who know about it must be small) and (2) almost a physical law that any device which falls into the hands of the enemy will give up any secrets it has, especially if many instances of that device are available. Granted, in many cases you can make a back door look like an accident, if it is a C program for instance you are going to make a "careless" mistake that introduces a stack or heap overflow.

The thing is that if the US chip industry is caught doing something like than then you will see Europe wake out of its slumber and create an Airbus of chipmaking, that kind of thing has consequences.

That bit about the stock market is a "tell"

Paranoia though is a thought process and it is not going to stop with one idea which may or may not be true but it just runs continously and I suspect if you interviewed this person for an hour you'd see this thought process go through multiple times. My experience with psychosis is that delusions run on rails and you rarely see new or creative delusions but rather a fascination with perpetual motion machines, cures for cancer, unified field theories and the stock market (not like... shitcoins, swaps, options, other derivatives) It's always the same thing and there's barely a pause where one of them ends and something else from the standard playbook begins. Had he not said that about the stock market I might have engaged with it at face value.

The OP really should seek medical help —- a person in this condition who doesn’t have good social support could easily lose their housing.

> (1) the difficulty of maintaining a conspiracy with a large number of conspirators (the number of people who know about it must be small) and (2) almost a physical law that any device which falls into the hands of the enemy will give up any secrets it has, especially if many instances of that device are available.

They've literally done this. They released their historical document for it in 2018. It's a good read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

And you're right: in the Crypto AG story, an engineer noticed their intentional cryptography weaknesses and tried to get them fixed, so they noted that they needed to think of sneakier backdoors. They really have to be careful about who they let in on it.

I figured it out, it's the CIA. Edward Snowden got no punishment for leaking despite "NSA reads minds" and yet the CIA leakers got 40 years and 8 months for not even leaking the code. The CIA has an AI that wrote several hundreds of millions of lines of software exploit code according to Vault 7. CIA and their Artifical Intelligence(s) are the deep state.

There is no conspiracy here. RDSEED and RDRAND both use physical entropy sources like thermal noise to generate true random bits.