The chip on the photo of the article is just some random component (was it a voltage regulator?) that the journalist bought from Digikey or Mouser or some store

The chip on the photo of the article is just some random component (was it a voltage regulator?) that the journalist bought from Digikey or Mouser or some store like that. No suspicious chip was ever found on a Supermicro board. The story is fabricated, and it's impossible to check because all there is are rumors from unnamed sources.