Bloomberg Businessweek reported that a Chinese military unit inserted microchips into Super Micro Computer Inc server motherboards in widespread use at U.S. companies. Both Amazon and Apple strongly refute the story. The Department of Homeland Security released a statement this weekend supporting Apple and Amazons denial of the report. The report claimed that the chips, which were the size of a pencil tip and allegedly ended up in server boards used by almost 30 companies as well as government agencies, compromised entire data centers.”]
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