Supermicro to Review Hardware for Malicious Chips

The manufacturer of computer servers would review its motherboards for any proof of malicious ’spy chips’ as alleged in a recent Bloomberg report.

Silhouettes of laptop users next to a screen projection of binary code are seen in this picture illustration taken on March 28, 2018. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

Computer hardware maker Supermicro said on Oct. 22 it would review its motherboards for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.

“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 server and storage manufacturer said in a letter to its customers, dated Oct. 18.