If you read about both, it becomes pretty clear (at least, it did to me) that they aren't related. Bloomberg's story was about a (supposed) backdoored chip ins

If you read about both, it becomes pretty clear (at least, it did to me) that they aren't related. Bloomberg's story was about a (supposed) backdoored chip installed into the server at the factory, this is about flipping a bit in the firmware installed on the existing BMC.