Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Chinese spy chip report Topic Chinese spy chip report 2 mentions in 1 episode A Bloomberg story alleging that hardware in a supply chain had been altered to report back to China. Mentions 291: Disambiglyuationess Oct 22, 2018 27:40 China was putting rogue bits of equipment, technology, hardware, silicon, whatever, on the motherboards to report back to China. 28:10 No one showed up with a chip or motherboard.