Supermicro


Super Micro Computer, Inc., doing business as Supermicro, is an American information technology company based in San Jose, California. The company is one of the largest producers of high-performance and high-efficiency servers, while also providing server management software, and storage systems for various markets, including enterprise data centers, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G, and edge computing. Supermicro was founded on November 1, 1993, and has manufacturing operations in Silicon Valley, the Netherlands, and in Taiwan at its Science and Technology Park.

History

In 1993, Supermicro began as a five-person business operation run by Charles Liang, a Taiwanese-American, alongside his wife and company treasurer, Chiu-Chu Liu, known as Sara. Prior to founding Supermicro, Liang earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Liang holds several patents for server technology and was previously the president and chief design engineer of Micro Center Computer, a motherboard design and manufacturing company, from July 1991 to August 1993. Liang stated that the company was able to turn a profit after six months of operation.

Manufacturing expansion, local and international

The same year it was founded, Supermicro established its first European partnership with Boston Limited, a UK-based IT solutions provider, which launched Supermicro products into the UK and European markets. The continued collaboration has seen several Supermicro technologies introduced to Europe, including the P5EXTRA in the 1990s, the 1U Twin in 2006, and innovations such as the Supercool 1U Twin in 2007 and high-performance GPU computing systems in 2009.
In 1996, the company opened a manufacturing subsidiary, Ablecom, in Taiwan, which is run by Charles's brothers, Steve Liang and Bill Liang. Charles Liang and his wife own close to 31 percent of Ablecom, while Steve Liang and other members of the family own close to 50 percent.
In 1998, Supermicro opened a subsidiary in the Netherlands. In May 2010, Supermicro further expanded into Europe with the opening of its system integration logistics center in the Netherlands.
In 2012, the company opened its Taiwan Science and Technology Park, totaling $99 million in construction costs. The Taiwanese factory was expanded in 2019 and came online in 2021.
In September 2014, Supermicro moved its corporate headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California, along Interstate 880, naming the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park. In 2017, the company completed a new 182,000 square-foot manufacturing building on the campus, which was designed to meet LEED gold certification. The company expanded its San Jose campus in September 2021 with a manufacturing facility for advanced storage and server equipment. Supermicro was reported to have 2,400 people working in San Jose.
In February 2025, Supermicro began building its third California-based manufacturing campus. The new campus is being developed with the intention to increase production of liquid-cooled services for data centers. The company produces a majority of its servers in California. Following a push for more state-side manufacturing by American President Donald Trump, Supermicro considered expanding server production in states like Mississippi and Texas. A few months later, in July 2025, Supermicro expressed its interest in expanding investment regarding manufacturing in Europe to meet artificial intelligence demand in the area.
In October 2025, Supermicro created a subsidiary focusing on American federal agencies, which would provide cloud-services and data center materials manufactured from its facilities in Silicon Valley, California.

Products

In 1995, Supermicro released a dual-CPU motherboard for servers, becoming one of the first companies to do so. The motherboard was followed up by a four-CPU server board.
In 2004, Supermicro began to develop energy-saving servers, which was partially influenced by Liang watching the movie The Day After Tomorrow with his family.
In 2008, Supermicro was among ten computing companies brought on to the Hyperion project by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The companies helped to develop a testbed for high-performance computing technologies for the purpose of maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile while avoiding underground nuclear testing, and improving the industry’s ability to make petaFLOP/s computing and storage more accessible.
In 2012, Supermicro debuted its new 2U and 4U/Tower platforms.
In 2016, Supermicro sent 30,000 MicroBlade servers to a Silicon Valley data center with a claimed power usage effectiveness of 1.06. While Supermicro did not name the customer, it was likely Intel, who opened a similar data center in November 2015 with a PUE of 1.06.
In April 2020, Supermicro announced the H12 A+ Superblade, a blade server based on the 2nd gen Epyc 1P family of CPUs. It was the first blade server platform to implement AMD's Epyc processors.
In April 2021, Supermicro introduced over 100 application-optimized server product SKUs using 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, including Hyper, SuperBlade, the Twin Product Family, Ultra, CloudDC, GPU, Telco/5Gand Edge servers.
In July 2024, VentureBeat reported that Supermicro would be providing half the servers for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, with Dell providing the other half. The project was completed in 122 days according to the company, resulting in the creation of a 750,000 square foot Memphis-based data center to host Colossus, a supercomputer. Supermicro also supplied servers for Tesla's Gigafactory Texas.
In May 2025, Supermicro released its Direct Liquid Cooling and Data Centre Building Block Solutions, intending to expand upon and improve technologies related to AI data centers.
In November 2025, Supermicro reported fiscal first-quarter 2026 results under expectations, stating that "design win upgrades" on server projects, where $1.5 billion in expected revenue shifted due to a high-volume customer requesting last minute updates, which extended integration, testing, and validation times for new GPU-based systems. Additionally, the company received $13 billion in orders on systems based on the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra-based GB300 architecture. In the same month, Supermicro displayed new products at the 2025 Supercomputing Conference, including the Nvidia GB300 NVL72 rack, 8U and 6U SuperBlade multi-node systems, 2U FlexTwin, HGX B300 4U rack, GB200 NVL4 1U server, and GB300-based developer workstation. Updates to the modular and blade families such as BigTwin, MicroBlade, and MicroCloud were also shown at the conference.

Partnerships

In 2023, Supermicro partnered with Rakuten Symphony on high-performing Open RAN technologies and storage systems for operators of cloud-based mobile services. Later in the year, Supermicro debuted servers with liquid cooling, focusing on ESG policies. The servers save approximately 40% of the power expended on air-cooled data centers. In June 2023, Supermicro saw increased demand for its large language model optimized AI systems, featuring NVIDIA chips.
In October 2024, Supermicro announced a partnership with Fujitsu, a Japanese IT services company, where the two companies will jointly develop energy-efficient servers and liquid-cooling systems for high-performance computing, generative artificial intelligence, and data centers.
On December 25, 2024, Super Micro Computer announced a joint venture with Taiwanese development company Guo Rui to build an artificial intelligence data center powered solely by renewable energy at an undisclosed location in Taiwan.
In May 2025, Supermicro announced a $20 billion partnership with DataVolt, a Saudi Arabian data center company. Under the agreement, Supermicro will supply GPU platforms and rack systems for DataVolt’s AI campuses in both Saudi Arabia and the United States.
In September 2025, Supermicro announced an artificial intelligence-based partnership with Nokia, focusing on integrated data center network products. In the following month, Supermicro would partner with Hitachi Vantara, each allowing the other company to offer their products through the opposing companies, focusing on artificial intelligence applications and data lakehouses.

Corporate affairs

Board of directors

As of May 2025, Supermicro's board of directors consists of co-founder Charles Liang, co-founder Sara Liu, Wally Liaw, Daniel W. Fairfax, Tally Liu, Sherman Tuan, Judy Lin, Robert Blair, Susie Giordano, and Scott Angel. Giordano joined the board in August 2024 and served as the only member of Supermicro's special committee to oversee an internal audit of concerns raised by EY. In April 2025, the company's former senior vice president of corporate development, Yitai Hu, became its chief legal officer, serving as Supermicro's general counsel.

Financials

On March 8, 2007, Supermicro raised $64 million in an initial public offering, selling 8 million shares at $8 a share. Supermicro's stock trades under the ticker symbol SMCI on the Nasdaq exchange.
In 2009, Supermicro sold about $720 million worth of computer servers and related products and employed almost 1,100 people. By the end of 2023, the company had reported a fiscal year 2023 revenue of $7.1 billion and employed over 5,000 workers globally.
Supermicro replaced Whirlpool in the S&P 500 after a large rally in the company's stock lifted its market cap from $4.5B at the end of 2022 to $60B in March 2024.
In June 2024, Supermicro made its debut on the Fortune 500 list, reaching number 498. By 2025, the company had climbed 206 spots, earning the 292nd position on the list.
On July 22, 2024, Supermicro became a Nasdaq-100 company, replacing Walgreens Boots Alliance in the index. Supermicro was removed from the index in December 2024.