“ Tesla had a head start on electric, but they could not take advantage of this. Once other manufacturers woke up to the threat, it became clear Tesla has nothing on them, and car industry is fiercely competitive.”
Is there any other car company in the world selling electric vehicles at a profit besides Tesla? Everyone else is losing money on their EVs most are losing a lot of money. Not only is Tesla profitable but they have better margins than many companies have on their gas cars.
At the very end they brought out an ATV and put it in the bed. With the exception that it looks pretty far out there the specs are certainly impressive.
None of those guys offer the same variety of form factors and features that Super Micro does. If you are an OEM that needs an Intel Xeon-D board in mini-itx form factor for example.
No, the controller runs it's own totally separate OS, has connections to most/all the buses and is able to emulate devices whether you have drivers installed or not.
The article specifically says that the attack goes after the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). In Supermicro equipment this takes the form of a separate SOC made by ASPEED that runs it's own operating system entirely separate from the main CPU but with access into the main system through various mechanisms. Facebook uses the same ASPEED chips in their open hardware projects.
If people are interested in digging into how IPMI works every SuperMicro board I've ever seen uses some variety of ASPEED Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). Facebook uses the same chip in their open hardware projects.
Is there any other car company in the world selling electric vehicles at a profit besides Tesla? Everyone else is losing money on their EVs most are losing a lot of money. Not only is Tesla profitable but they have better margins than many companies have on their gas cars.