The pile of shit itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013621/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Reddit reaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/9lac9k/china_used_a_tiny_chip_in_a_hack_that_infiltrated/
(posted on reddit more than a hundred times, over 5000 comments spread out on every thread, back in 2018 this was a huge story… all bullshit)
Article detailing the aftermath: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/04/editorial-a-year-later-bloomberg-silently-stands-by-its-big-hack-icloud-spy-chip-story
It really is this transparent when we look back at it all.
I remember when this article came out- I was working in an RMA department for a third party company that made servers for Amazon and Apple.
We specialized in the exact motherboard that this bloomberg article rattled on about. I dont know if this is worth bringing onto the table, but those units had extremely high fail rate. They either burned up or killed whatever components was installed on them (ECC Dimms were common victims). Also SuperMicro is based in San Jose and the founder is from Taiwan so…
My co-worker and I suspect this was a streisand effect to get techbros wooed into or at least talking about the OCP (Open compute project - which was a few years old, but iirc was starting to hobble financially when this article came out)
Even IF you took that tabloid at face value, wouldn’t China be selecting a board that doesnt cook itself after a 40 min burn-in test?