The Chinese Government did not deny this report specifically but said in a statement “China is a resolute defender of cybersecurity.
Super Micro, is one of the world's biggest supplier of server motherboards, capacitors and fibreglass-mounted chips. According to government and corporate sources, Chinese spies have breached at least 30 American companies by compromising the supply chain. It is a company in China that assembles marines used in the centres at Apple and Amazon.Īll companies in question have disputed this report while Super Micro has denied the introduction of these chips during manufacturing. This practice may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro. These claims have been strongly refuted by both Apple and Amazon.Īccording to Bloomberg, these chips have been under investigation since 2015 where it was found these chips steal intellectual property and trade secrets. The report claims that a tiny microchip was inserted during the manufacturing process. Since everything is manufactured in China, including the laptop I'm typing this story on, it is not far-fetched that the Chinese Government may be secretly installed spy chips in servers of leading companies.Ī report by Bloomberg suggests that data centre equipment run by Amazon Web Services and Apple may have been affected by this very practice.
In the world of espionage, anything and everything goes and it seems like the Chinese may be using spy chips in hardware for surveillance.
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