AMD offers you up to 50 to 100% higher performance while offering a 40% lower price. Unless you go for the low end server CPUs, there is no contest: AMD offers much better performance for a much lower price than Intel, with more memory channels and over 2x the number of PCIe lanes.
Which is a pretty bold claim for them. It has my attention at least.
The executive said he has seen similar manipulations of different vendors' computer hardware made by contractors in China, not just products from Supermicro. “Supermicro is a victim -- so is everyone else,” he said. Appleboum said his concern is that there are countless points in the supply chain in China where manipulations can be introduced, and deducing them can in many cases be impossible. “That's the problem with the Chinese supply chain,” he said.
According to the original article - the alleged Chinese culprit chip exploited via the BMC. Aspeed is the company that makes 99% of the BMC controllers in Supermicro boards. If China really did go through the trouble to develop a chip to exploit via Aspeed controllers.... why limit themselves to Supermicro? I know at least Tyan and Lenovo also use Aspeed. From China's intelligence perspective, they would want a solution that could work across multiple board vendors.
According to latest:
Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones. The metal is necessary to diffuse heat from the chip hidden inside, which acts like a mini computer. "The module looks really innocent, high quality and 'original' but it was added as part of a supply chain attack," he said.
Really wish they would give us more to go on than just that. Not sure about other Slashdotters, but I have Tyan/Supermicro/Insert-Taiwanese-Motherboard-Manufacturer boards in production, and would really appreciate more information on what to look for.
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With your bare hands?!?