Supermicro, also known as Super Micro Computer, Inc., is an American technology firm and was established in 1993 by Charles Liang and Sara Liu. The company is based in San Jose, California, and is a manufacturer of high-performance computing infrastructure, which is located all over the world.
The company’s main business is designing and building servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and computing infrastructure used in modern data centers. Its products cover rack servers and GPU servers, blade servers, workstations, and edge computing systems. The products are used in strenuous workloads, including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing (HPC), big data analytics, cloud computing, and enterprise software environments.
Supermicro packages processors, memory, storage subsystems, cooling systems, and networking into optimized server assemblies that can be deployed by customers into large-scale IT infrastructures such as enterprise data centers, telecommunications networks, and research institutions.
The main characteristic of the technology strategy of the company is its architecture, Server Building Block Solutions, which provides customers with an opportunity to build their own computing systems out of building blocks. Another innovation that the company undertakes is the development of sophisticated cooling technologies such as liquid-cooling systems that help in lowering the energy usage and increasing performance.
The company exports systems to consumers in approximately 80 countries and has distributors, systems integrators, cloud service providers, and enterprise clients. Its solutions serve various industries, including financial services and telecommunications, scientific research, automation of industries, and digital security systems.
The company encourages energy-efficient computing through its own program, the We Keep IT Green®, whose theme is to decrease the power consumption and environmental impact of data centers. Supermicro complies with the Lot 9 requirements in the European Union (EU) ecodesign of server and storage products.
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