From my scouring some time ago on Ebay Google seems to use board designs modified and produces to their specs from some Taywan nonames. So while they also can potentially be similarly attacked, it wouldn't be the same attack.
Wrt. the subj of the Bloomberg story - back in 90ies Russian FSB would comb through the internals of every PCs they bought for their use. That though was before Intel ME :)
Wrt. the subj of the Bloomberg story - back in 90ies Russian FSB would comb through the internals of every PCs they bought for their use. That though was before Intel ME :)