Did we ever get this fixed ?
https:// www.military.com/defensetech/2012/05/30/smoking-gun-proof-that-military-chips-from-china-are-infected
Specifically, the American-designed, Chinese-made Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 A3P250 – commonly known as the PA3 – chip was found by Cambridge researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov, to have a backdoor, or trojan, deliberately built into it. The PA3 is what's called a Field Reprogrammable Gate Array (FRGA); an almost blank slate of a microchip that can be programmed by its owner to perform a variety of tasks