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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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