From CNET: Super Micro sent a letter to customers saying it'll review its products for any evidence of alleged spy chips, according to Reuters.
"Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review to further address the article," the company wrote in a letter to customers dated Oct. 18, referring to a Bloomberg Businessweek report from earlier this month.
Bloomberg had reported that Chinese spy chips were allegedly used to gather intellectual property and trade secrets from Apple and Amazon. The chips were reportedly assembled in China for San Jose, California-based Super Micro, and could have been subject to a secret US government investigation that started in 2015.
Super Micro has denied these allegations.
"The allegations imply there are a large number of affected motherboards. Bloomberg has not produced a single affected motherboard, we have seen no malicious hardware components in our products, no government agency has contacted us about malicious hardware components, and no customer has reported finding any malicious hardware components, either," said Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro, in an email statement. "Bloomberg should act responsibly and retract its unsupported allegations that malicious hardware components were implanted on our motherboards during the manufacturing process."
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