It seems weird because the Bloomberg article says they were connected to the BMC: > The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the base

It seems weird because the Bloomberg article says they were connected to the BMC: > The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller, a kind of superchip that administrators use to remotely log in to problematic servers The discussion of DRAM only really seems necessary if that _isn't_ plausible.