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bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling
- Subject: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling
- From: valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu)
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:31:29 -0400
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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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