Comments on: The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/21/the-long-patience-of-lenovo-starts-paying-off-in-the-datacenter/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:23:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Dan Burke https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/21/the-long-patience-of-lenovo-starts-paying-off-in-the-datacenter/#comment-205347 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:02:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141923#comment-205347 When Lenovo acquired IBM’s PC business in 2005, the action raised alarm because it potentially could allow the Chinese government access to confidential military data. Lenovo vigorously defended their independance.

Sadly, it was discovered in that shortly afterwards in 2008 an encryption chip was incorporated that relayed data back to China.

Then, the DoD had to purge IBM servers after that purchase for the same reason, as was done with Supermicro.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

Thus, I cannot endorse widespread growth in the server business for security reasons.

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