Maybe apple should build their chips in America to avoid this being viewed as real
They already are using chips made in America, it's just that you aren't looking, as usual. Last time I was in Austin, I noticed a chip plant there that supplies chips to Apple. By the way, Austin is in Texas. Other chips supplied to Apple by Texas Instruments, Fairchild and Maxim Integrated in the United States. Other companies also supplying components to Apple made in the USA and around the world outside China. As well as many American companies supplying components to Apple although those companies may outsource outside the USA.
You're just focusing on trying to make Apple look bad while ignoring other American companies that actually don't use American made components.
Excuse me, this has NOTHING to do with something buried inside a chip. It has everything to do with ADDING a custom made chip to a MOTHERBOARD, something EASILY FOUND. Apple designs and has it's own chips made. . . and adding something surreptitious to those would be nigh unto impossible.
In fact, 4rcane, this has ZERO to do with any Apple products. This was about Apple along with Amazon actually supposedly DISCOVERING a surreptitious INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP added to a motherboard on a rack mounted server that BOTH were planning on buying for their cloud servers, NOT for a product they were going to be selling. This was a motherboard manufactured in China for a company called Super Micro Computer, DBA SuperMicro. These motherboards were installed the rack mounted servers made by Elemental Systems, designed for high-speed streaming video servers.
The problem is that so many articles are being written by people who have a READING COMPREHENSION PROBLEM. . . who failed to recognize that BLOOMBERG was using both Amazon and Apple to get clicks. . . because they actually credited both Amazon and Apple with independently FINDING the malicious chip on the motherboards in the summer of 2015. . . but are writing articles as if the spy chips are in Apple products when that is NOT THE CASE!
Nor are these chips inside other chips, which actually would be a much smarter way to do this. They are, according to the BOGUS Bloomberg article, sitting like RED FLAG SORE THUMBS in plain sight on the motherboard.