Actually you know no such thing. The articles that come from one single source, Bloomberg, stated that Apple FOUND the malicious chips and cancelled their order for 30,000 servers. If that were the case, then Apple would not have been effected.
However, the entire series of facts as laid out by Bloomberg is BOGUS, coming from anonymous sources with no proffer of evidence to back it up except FAKED photographs of chips that are NOT what they claim them to be, but rather other types of electronic parts well recognized by experts in the field. In fact some of the people they quote have come out to say they have been quoted by Bloomberg's reporters OUT OF CONTEXT and with important parts of what they said omitted, such as "This makes no sense." and "There are much easier ways to do this."
Both Amazon and Apple have OFFICIALLY denied they ever found any such thing as Bloomberg claims they found and the history of the two companies' involvement with Supermicro also proves that Bloomberg's claims are complete lies as well. In fact, while Apple did sever its relationship with Supermicro, it did so in the summer of 2016, ONE YEAR after the time that Bloomberg claimed they found bogus chips on the Server motherboards in summer of 2015. Amazon, went ahead and BOUGHT the company that was using Supermicro to make their servers, and it CONTINUED to use Supermicro to make the servers for Amazon. . . for both Amazon Web Serverices and Amazon Prime Video serverces. . . AFTER the 2015 claimed date when Amazon engineers were supposed to have found bogus IC chips on the servers they WERE going to buy from the company and per Bloomberg cancelled the contract. No, Amazon BOUGHT the company three months later, hook line, and Supermicro contract. That is NOT the act of a due diligent company who found major security flaw. For Apple's part, Apple bought almost 7,000 Supermicro servers until Supermicro could not meet the demand due to supplying Amazon's needs because of their expansion. Apple went elsewhere and severed their relationship due to lack of Supermicro's inability to supply the numbers Apple needed for their streaming video service, not because of security concerns. Nothing in this history of the three companies matches Bloomberg's Tall Tale at all.
I am not referring to the latest but an older news story from months ago about the 200,000 compromised Cisco routers
What I am talking about is not directly related to the server part but they were discussed ad naseum on LinkedIn and other places where this type of information is regularly discussed and not typical for main stream news pubs.
This then is additive not part of the story you wax on about me being incorrect about. The endeavor servers provided by Apple are a key element in the overall architecture and the chip installed was deliberately done so for behavioral reasons. The same is true of the Cisco routers, I do not make this stuff up it is part of my profession to know and account for in the overall secure architecture my role and solutions require.
As to your last position of this being a big noting it is also being discussed on LinkedIn as a potential security risk and I maintain my interest for the reasons mentioned above. Its validation is still in question, time will tell and if you understand what is going on and you seem to have more than a remedial level of knowledge I hope you would agree that it bears monitoring. The Big Boys have been deep into stuff for years and they do not have clean hands by any measure, at least not to me.
Time will tell