MARVELL DISPUTES CLAIM CAVIUM BACKDOORED CHIPS FOR UNCLE SAM

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Marvell has denied allegations that its subsidiary, Cavium, backdoored chips for US intelligence. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 identified Cavium as a vendor of semiconductors backdoored for US intelligence. The allegations surfaced again in Jacob Appelbaum's PhD thesis, which was published in March 2022.