That chip on the finger tip is a coupler, a common, everyday use IC that is NOT by any means a surreptitious chip with spy functions. That is a bogus photo and unless Bloomberg Businessweek comes up with a compromised motherboard or even a photograph of a SuperMicro motherboard with such a spy IC in in situ, they ar blowing smoke and FAKE NEWS. No one else has, inspecting the millions of SuperMicro motherboards that have been installed in thousands of racks around the world found even ONE MORE (if Bloomberg even found one) compromised motherboard. Not one. Ergo, it never happened. . . . and Bloomberg needs to retract its story which is based entirely on anonymous sources.
Those named experts in the story have come forward to state they were misquoted, mis-attributed, or even ignored when they told Bloomberg's reporters their story and theory made NO SENSE.
The reporters asked what kind of chips would be found on a motherboard and one of the experts sent them a catalog . . . which included the coupler. He says he was surprised to find the coupler photo used in the story.
Perhaps YOU should. Not a single Apple product is accused by Bloomberg to have been compromised. In fact, Bloomberg states categorically that both Amazon and Apple DISCOVERED the spurious chip on a third-party motherboard on a server from another third-party SERVER manufacturer both were thinking about using for their respective cloud services. . . not for their products. Try reading for comprehension.
However, both Apple and Amazon deny anything such as what Bloomberg claims ever happened. . . and no other cloud service using the same hardware has found even a single instance of a compromised motherboard among the millions that are currently in use. Not a single one. . . and believe me, they are looking to find one. Ergo, bkopto, it is FAKE NEWS intended to support the business that Bloomberg was and is currently pushing, Sepio Systems, which just coincidentally, or probably not coincidentally, is selling a software package to identify and alert network users of exactly such surreptitiously placed extra hardware. The SOLE source for their articles is the co-CEO of Sepio Systems, Yossi Appleboum.
Other experts the Bloomberg writers cited are coming out to state they were mis-quoted or actually mis-represented by being quoted completely out of context or leaving out them telling the reporters that the reporters' theory makes no sense at all.
Incidentally, that photo you linked is not the chip in question but a generic coupler chip. There are NO PHOTOS of the surreptitious chip in situ on the "compromised" motherboard. None. Zip. Zero. If they can't photograph one, it doesn't exist.
Sorry, I forgot I already had replied to your photo. I have been on a cruise for a week or so.