Thanks for the link, Shethink13, but that chip was not installed in any of Apple's products.
It was being installed in Chinese designed mother boards for products designed and made for generic computers and mobile devices. Apple designs all if its products from the ground up, including its logic boards and major integrated chips.
Where Apple was going to be impacted was they were buying another company's dedicated rack servers for their server data farms for iCloud. The was the company that was to make the 30,000 mother boards for servers Apple was going to install in its server farms which was found by Amazon was inserting the surreptitious spy chip was a Chinese company named Supermicro. Apple had ordered 30,000 rack mounted servers from a third party company which were going to be made by Supermicro that was apparently inserting the chip on its motherboards destined to be used for the servers.
Just as Amazon did, Apple FOUND the spurious chip (perhaps they were warned by Amazon) in sample servers and immediately cancelled the order and severed its relationship with the supplier, in 2015. Read the article. It lays out the "almost" impact it would have had on Apple's servers. . . but Apple dodged the bullet, because their engineers are proactive, just as Amazon's were in diligently checking what they were going to buy.
Apple designs and monitors the manufacturing of every logic board goes into their products, inspecting them at every step. In addition, tear down specialists dissect Apple's logic boards, especially their mobile product, which use Systems on a Chip (SoC), which are DESIGNED BY APPLE in California, and not made in China. A chip inserted on a logic board would stick out like a sore thumb in Apple's quality control checks as they are computer controlled comparisons between reference photos of the original layout and the production version. Any change, such as an added chip, would raise a red flag.
Please post the entire article on Freerepublic and I will ping the Apple Ping List members to your posting as this is an important article. Since it's a Bloomberg article, you'll have to make it a link only article, by leaving the link blank and putting the link in the body. Don't quote anything from the article. Just say something on what it's about. Thanks.
So I should not be concerned about buying the new Apple Watch? Because I had every intention of doing so until I saw this.
The link IS from a free republic thread. I'm not sure why you can't just ping on that thread.