Except the article was BS.
Never happened. The chip Bloomberg pictured wasn’t what they claimed, was never found on any production servers, and the claim was entirely a HOAX that could not have been done the way the idiotic author of the article claimed it was done, as such a thing would have stood out like a HUGE SORE THUMB in Quality Assurance on the US Designed board. You don’t just add a spurious IC to a six level server logic board without completely re-designing the board’s traces and layout. It can’t be done. Not a single bogus board with a spurious IC was ever found. . . And the so-called spurious IC pictured was a standard component found on many logic boards.
The claims that Apple, Amazon, and other buyers of the servers had cancelled orders was also bogus. Didn’t happen. In fact, Amazon increased orders and is still using these servers.