Supermicro finds no chip tampering with its logic boards


Motherboard designer issues a letter to customers this week stating their audit findings of media reports alleging a foreign government infiltrated its designs. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the component vendor's products were compromised by the Chinese government. Apple, Amazon, and other technology companies were implicated as victims of the intrusion. All companies, in addition to U.S. government agencies, refuted the report.

Ars Technica:

In a letter to customers issued December 11, Supermicro President and CEO Charles Liang and other top executives announced that an audit conducted by an outside investigating team had found no evidence of any malicious hardware incorporated into motherboards currently or previously manufactured by the company. The letter is the latest rebuttal to Bloomberg reports in October that claimed tiny chips that provided a backdoor for China's intelligence agencies had been integrated into boards provided to major Internet and cloud providersâ€"a report also refuted by the companies the report claimed were targeted.