The big hack: How China used a tiny chip to infiltrate America's top companies

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...ny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
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Excerpt:
"These servers were assembled for Elemental by Super Micro Computer Inc., a San Jose-based company (commonly known as Supermicro) that’s also one of the world’s biggest suppliers of server motherboards, the fiberglass-mounted clusters of chips and capacitors that act as the neurons of data centers large and small. In late spring of 2015, Elemental’s staff boxed up several servers and sent them to Ontario, Canada, for the third-party security company to test, the person says.
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design."
 
Interesting article.. I'll make sure to give it a proper read once I have some time.

The size of the chip is insane.

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