> I think if they were specifically targeting Apple & Amazon there would have to be someone complicit in Supermicro making sure that motherboards with the special part went to the right destinations.
Fair enough, I guess it depends on their distribution model. When I order a macbook from apple.com, it ships from China. So, somebody there knows it's coming to me. Not that I'm a target, but I'd be surprised if they were shipping a container of servers to Supermicro and then to a customer. If Apple dropships one laptop, I assume Supermicro dropships containers.
> That seems more labor intensive than actually swapping the modified part.
Good point, assuming it was not labor intensive to modified part itself, then swapping them out on the line would be trivial.
