bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

Thu Oct 4 19:31:29 UTC 2018

On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:26:15 -0400, William Herrin said:

> The Bloomberg article described them as looking like 'signal
> conditioning couplers" on the motherboard. There is no such part on
> server boards but maybe they meant optoisolators or power conditioning
> capacitors.

You overlook the obvious case - that it *looks* like Yet Another Filter Cap
but it's actually a microcontroller wired into a useful SPI bus....
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