After Apple, Amazon and Supermicro are also calling on Bloomberg to withdraw its article about secretly placing spy chips on motherboards. No other publication has confirmed the claims.
according to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy was wrong about the Bloomberg article not only about Apple but also regarding Amazon: “They showed no evidence, the story kept changing and they weren’t interested in our answers unless we changed their theories.” confirmed.”
The CEO of Supermicro will also that Bloomberg is going back on its claims. According to him, if the reporting is correct, there must be a lot of manipulated motherboards, but the company itself has found nothing, Bloomberg has not shown any affected motherboards, and other customers have found no evidence. Supermicro will continue to investigate the case, Reuters writes.
On Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook requested that the article be retracted, but Bloomberg then said it would stand behind the story. That would have taken a year and seventeen sources would have confirmed it. Bloomberg’s editors are said to be “frustrated” that other media outlets, such as the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post, are not getting the coverage, at least the Washington Post writes.
Bloomberg published a story two weeks ago about spy chips that the Chinese government would have placed on Supermicro server motherboards, which then ended up in data centers of major companies such as Amazon and Apple. The US and UK sided with the denials of the companies involved.