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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by dijit on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:21AM (#18655424)
It's also easy to read this as a smear campaign against Chinese companies.
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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by thetricia on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:08AM (#18656244)
Well the big difference is it's reasonable to assume a Mainland Chinese company could get banned or sanctioned in some manner.

Now just to be fair, from what I read, there was a lot of Super Micro drama going on beforehand which likely magnified the pessimism.

Btw if you search for 'supermicro "is a chinese"' you will find some people that do think that.

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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by jessaustin on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:15AM (#18655810)
Arresting CFOs seems to be the more popular technique now...

[EDIT:] this is a real thing that happened recently https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/canada-arrests-cfo-ch...

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