Super Micro to Customers: Chinese Spy Chips Story Is Wrong

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A Bloomberg article claiming that tiny chips were inserted in Super Micro Computer Inc. equipment “is wrong,” the California-based server manufacturer says.

In a letter sent to its customers and also forwarded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Super Micro too calls the Bloomberg story wrong. The company also notes that it doesn’t know of or has seen any malicious hardware chips implanted during the manufacturing of their motherboards.

“We trust you appreciate the difficulty of proving that something did not happen, even though the reporters have produced no affected motherboard or any such malicious hardware chip. As we have said firmly, no one has shown us a motherboard containing any unauthorized hardware chip, we are not aware of any such unauthorized chip, and no government agency has alerted us to the existence of any unauthorized chip,” the letter reads.

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/super-micro...tory-wrong