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Supermicro

#1031

Rank

$18.15B

Marketcap

US United States

Country

Supermicro
Leadership team

Mr. Charles Liang (Founder, Chairman, Pres & CEO)

Mr. David E. Weigand (Sr. VP, CFO, Company Sec. & Chief Compliance Officer)

Mr. George Kao (Sr. VP of Operations)

Products/ Services
Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Embedded Systems, Manufacturing, Software
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
San Jose, California, United States
Established
1993
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0001375365
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
Traded as
SMCI
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Overview
Location
Summary
Super Micro Computer, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and manufactures high-performance server and storage solutions based on modular and open architecture. Its solutions range from complete server, storage, modular blade servers, blades, workstations, full racks, networking devices, server management software, and server sub-systems, as well as security software. The company also provides application-optimized server solutions, including rackmount and blade servers, storage systems, and subsystems and accessories; and server software management solutions, such as Server Management Suite, including Supermicro Server Manager, Supermicro Power Management software, Supermicro Update Manager, SuperCloud Composer, and SuperDoctor 5. In addition, it offers server subsystems and accessories comprising server boards, chassis, power supplies, and other accessories. Further, the company provides server and storage system integration, configuration, and software upgrade and update services; and technical documentation services, as well as identifies service requirements, creates and executes project plans, and conducts verification testing and training services. Additionally, it offers help desk and on-site product support services for its server and storage systems; and customer support services, including ongoing maintenance and technical support for its products. The company provides its products to enterprise data centers, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and 5G and edge computing markets. It sells its products through direct and indirect sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturers. The company primarily operates in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. Super Micro Computer, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
History

Formation and initial public offering

In 1993, Supermicro began as a 5 person operation run by Charles Liang alongside his wife and company treasurer, Chiu-Chu Liu, known as Sara. In 1996, the company opened a manufacturing subsidiary in Taiwan, Ablecom, which is run by Charles’s brother, Steve 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 2006, Supermicro plead guilty to a felony charge and paid a $150,000 fine due to a violation of a United States embargo against the sale of computer systems to Iran.On March 8, 2007, Supermicro raised $64 million in an initial public offering, selling 8 million shares at $8 a share.In 2009, Supermicro sold about $720 million worth of computer servers and related products and employed almost 1,100 people.

International expansion

In May 2010, Supermicro further expanded into Europe with the opening of its system integration logistics center in the Netherlands.In January 2012, Supermicro opened its Taiwan Science and Technology Park, totalling $99 million in construction costs. Later in 2012, Supermicro debuted it’s 2U and 4U/Tower platforms.In 2014, the GCIC Center Tokyo Institute of Technology’s TSUBAME-KFC supercomputer, from Supermicro, was ranked first on the Green 500 list.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. The main building was designed by Warren B. Heid in the modernist style, which was common for commercial buildings in the 1960s, and built by the Carl N. Swenson Company. During the time it served as the Mercury News's headquarters, the main building was expanded from 185,000-square-foot to 312,000 square feet . Until recently, a bronze sculpture, Chandelier by John Jagger, hung from the ceiling of an elliptical loggia at the entrance. The loggia is distinguished by a series of metal columns and the moat that surrounds it.In 2016, Supermicro sent 30,000 MicroBlade servers to a Silicon Valley data center with a claimed PUE 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. A subsidiary of Supermicro, Super Micro Computer B.V., started a joint venture with Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd., a Chinese company that is on a U.S. government blacklist for alleged involvement in human rights violations and the suppression, imprisonment and spying on Uyghurs in Xinjiang.In 2017, the company's newly-constructed manufacturing facility in San Jose was designed to meet LEED gold certification.On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published a report, citing unnamed corporate and governmental sources, which claimed that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had forced Supermicro's Chinese sub-contractors to add microchips with hardware backdoors to its servers. The report claimed that the compromised servers had been sold to U.S. government divisions and contractors and at least 30 commercial clients.Supermicro denied the report, stating that they had not been contacted by government agencies and were unaware of any investigation. On October 22 Supermicro announced that "despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists" it was reviewing its motherboards for potential spy chips in response to the article.On October 9, 2018, Bloomberg issued a second report, alleging that Supermicro-manufactured datacenter servers of an unnamed U.S. telecom firm had been compromised by a hardware implant on an Ethernet connector.Supermicro filed a letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it was "confident" that "no malicious hardware chip had been implanted" during the manufacture of its motherboards.

Recent developments

In February 2021, Bloomberg Business reported that Supermicro had been compromised since 2011, U.S intelligence keeping it a secret to gather intelligence about China and warning only a small number of potential targets.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 November 2021, the joint venture of Super Micro Computer and Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies won a contract for supplying servers to Xinjiang Bingtuan for 'public safety purposes', which is associated with the suppression of Uyghurs ethnic group and construction of a surveillance system in the province of Xinjiang.On December 21, 2021, the Washington Post together with Russian dissident authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, accused the company of supplying 30 servers to the Moscow control center for Internet censorship in Russia.

Mission
We are committed to protecting the environment through our ""We Keep IT Green®"" initiatives, such as the recently developed Resource-Saving Computing designs that reduce data center energy consumption and E-waste while saving customers money on both acquisition plus operational costs and during refresh cycles for maximum TCE (Total Cost to the Environment) savings.
Vision
Our vision is to be the most trusted and innovative technology partner in the world and continue to lead the industry in advancing performance and efficiency.
Key Team

Mr. Don W. Clegg (Sr. VP of Worldwide Sales)

Ms. Chiu-Chu Liu Liang (Co-Founder, Sr. VP & Director)

Mr. Joseph Chang (Gen. Counsel)

Mr. Michael McNerney (VP of Marketing & Network Security)

Mr. Michael Thomas Staiger (VP of Corp. Devel.)

Mr. Shin-Chun Hsu (Sr. Chief Exec. of Strategic Bus.)

Mr. Vik Malyala (Sr. VP)

Recognition and Awards
Supermicro has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Best of VMworld, CRN's Best Server Solution, Network Computing's Best Performance Award, and Maximum PC's Best Performance/Value Award as well as many others.
References
Supermicro
Leadership team

Mr. Charles Liang (Founder, Chairman, Pres & CEO)

Mr. David E. Weigand (Sr. VP, CFO, Company Sec. & Chief Compliance Officer)

Mr. George Kao (Sr. VP of Operations)

Products/ Services
Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Embedded Systems, Manufacturing, Software
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
San Jose, California, United States
Established
1993
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0001375365
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
Traded as
SMCI
Social Media