Supermicro Asks Suppliers Not to Provide Chinese-Made Motherboards

Supermicro Asks Suppliers Not to Provide Chinese-Made Motherboards
A visitor walks past a motherboard wall during the Computex Show in Taipei on May 30, 2017. Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images
Frank Fang
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Supermicro, one of the world’s largest makers of computer servers, has asked its suppliers to shift production out of China.

Security concerns surrounding the California-based tech company’s servers were sparked by an October 2018 Bloomberg report that claimed the Chinese military developed “spy chips” and had secretly planted them into motherboards manufactured in China and supplied to Supermicro.
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
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Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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