Supermicro Says They Found No Spy Chips in Their Motherboards
 

Following a lengthy investigation, Supermicro sent an open letter to their customers claiming that they "found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on our motherboards." The company hired a "leading, third party investigations firm" to assist with the review, and they tested both newer motherboards and the older ones specifically mentioned in the Bloomberg story. Their stock price still hasn't recovered from the massive drop in October, but it has been steadily rising since then. In an effort to reassure customers, Supermicro also uploaded a "Supply Chain Security" video, which you can check out below: We test our products at every step of the manufacturing process. We test every layer of every board we manufacture throughout the process. We require that Supermicro employees be onsite with our assembly contractors, where we conduct multiple inspections, including automated optical, visual, electrical, and functional tests. The complexity of our motherboard design serves as an additional safeguard. Throughout our supply chain, each of our boards is tested repeatedly against its design to detect any aberration and to reject any board that does not match its design. To guard against tampering, no single employee, team, or contractor has unrestricted access to our complete board design. We regularly audit our contractors for process, quality, and controls.

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