Super Micro Announces Survey Results of External Organizations Denying 'Spy Chip Coverage' That Chipped Malicious Chips in China


Super Micro, which had been reported to Bloomberg Businessweek "Motherboard for server, charged spy chips in China", announced the findings of a third-party organization, saying "Malicious chips and hardware were inserted I did not have any facts. "

CEO - 3rd Party Security Update | Super Micro Computer, Inc.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/news/CEO-3rdPartySecurity-Update

You can check spy chip coverage by Bloomberg in the following article.

Bloomberg reports that the Apple & Amazon server was set up a chip to steal data to the Chinese People's Liberation Army's active force, Apple · Amazon completely denied - GIGAZINE



Although spy chip coverage developed into a big uproar involving the whole world, Super Micro rebounded from the beginning that it is not a fact and requested Bloomberg to withdraw the article. At the same time, we conducted a thorough investigation in the form of receiving support from outside survey company. And we released the findings that "malicious hardware was not detected on Supermicro motherboard by survey".



In announcing the findings of this survey, CEO Charles Rihan offered an acknowledgment to Apple, AWS, industry officials, Secretary of Homeland Security, US senior bureaucracy such as NSA and FBI, to name Bloomberg It is apparent that not only Apple and Amazon that were made, but also American authorities cooperated in the survey.

Super Micro also publishes a movie on the efforts for safety of its products, along with a report on the findings that the Bloomberg coverage is not true.

Supply Chain Security at Supermicro - YouTube

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