It's important to note that the entire story is no longer about just Supermicro, which (if the allegations are to be believed) was only a piece of the puzzle:

It's important to note that the entire story is no longer about just Supermicro, which (if the allegations are to be believed) was only a piece of the puzzle: “If you think this story has been about only one company, you’re missing the point,” [FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi] said. “This is a ‘don’t let this happen to you’ moment for anyone in the tech sector supply chain.” Perhaps the title could be adjusted to reflect that, although much of the article is still a follow-up to the earlier Supermicro story, and that is also reflected in the lede. In particular, the article also includes allegations that Lenovo hardware used by the US military in Iraq was modified with specially-crafted backdoors: “A large amount of Lenovo laptops were sold to the U.S. military that had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China,” Lee Chieffalo, who managed a Marine network operations center near Fallujah, Iraq, testified during that 2010 case. “That was a huge security breach. We don’t have any idea how much data they got, but we had to take all those systems off the network.” The above quote is from a court testimony, and the article also links to a full transcript of it (in PDF): https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r9dKMMM0Gi5I/v0 https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r9dKMMM0... Although this would be old news, it appears to not have been reported upon before. In any case, these are serious allegations. Bloomberg first published them over two years ago and faced criticism for not substantiating them further when all the parties mentioned in the article denied the claims. Eventually, the coverage of the whole story subsided without any definitive conclusion with regard to its veracity. Now Bloomberg appears to be doubling-down on the allegations. Hopefully this time the claims can either be confirmed as factual or disproved for good.