[AusNOG] supermicro stocks dive

[Rory Jones]

Buy low, sell high, that’s my motto!

-Homer Simpson

But to actually contribute something to this thread.

They could be talking about Hengzhi chips. They’re basically Chinese TPMs, but worse; they don’t follow trusted computing group guidelines, and as a result of this, no one knows anything about them.

There’s been a few blowups about this over the years. Something related to this recently eviscerated ZTE, not that anything of value was lost there, and many moons ago Lenovo had controversy about their China-market laptops containing Hengzhi chips.

There have also been cases where de-capping and reversing various random chips has found there to be unknown, undocumented ICs contained within them.

This isn’t the first, or last, time this will happen.

Kind regards,
Rory
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given when this broke a couple days ago

https://www.securityweek.com/china-used-tiny-chips-us-computers-steal-secrets-report

overnight nasdaq supermicro stocks  down 41%

seems cant trust much coming out of China these days. though, you cant trust anything coming out of the USA either.


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Kind Regards,

Noel Butler

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