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Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling
From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:31:29 -0400
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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