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Super Micro SUPPLY CHAIN TRACE

SERVER ODMs🇺🇸 United States · SMCI · NASDAQ

Super Micro is a leading designer and manufacturer of GPU server systems, building the rack-scale infrastructure that makes NVIDIA GPUs deployable in AI data centers at scale. Its liquid-cooled DGX-compatible servers are among the fastest to market when new GPU generations launch, giving it a first-mover advantage in each AI hardware cycle. The company has faced accounting and auditor scrutiny in 2024, but its deep technical partnership with NVIDIA and US-based manufacturing have kept it central to the AI server supply chain.

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NVIDIA

Dominant AI GPU designer (H100, H200, B200)

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies GPUs to server ODM

AMD

AI GPU designer challenging NVIDIA with MI300X

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies GPUs to server ODM

Intel

Designs Gaudi 3 AI accelerators and Xeon AI CPUs; TSMC-fabbed at advanced nodes for AI workloads

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies Gaudi AI accelerators to server ODM

Qualcomm

Leading mobile SoC and edge AI chip designer (Snapdragon X Elite, Cloud AI 100 inferencing)

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies Cloud AI 100 accelerators to server ODM

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Super Micro

Leading GPU server ODM for AI data centers

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~10% AI server market
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AWS

World's largest cloud provider and AI infrastructure buyer

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

SoftBank

Japan's largest AI infrastructure investor and GPU buyer

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

NTT

Japan's largest telco building domestic AI infrastructure

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

Microsoft Azure

Second-largest cloud; OpenAI exclusive compute partner; deploying Maia 100 custom ASIC alongside NVIDIA clusters

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

Oracle Cloud

Deployed the world's largest single NVIDIA GPU cluster (131,072 H100s, 2024); OCI GPU cloud serves enterprise AI and sovereign AI deployments

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

CoreWeave

GPU-native cloud provider; operates one of the world's largest NVIDIA H100/H200/B200 clusters for AI training and inference

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CLOUD PROVIDERSsupplies GPU servers to

xAI

Elon Musk's AI company; built Colossus — world's largest GPU cluster (200k H200 + B200); develops Grok LLM; direct NVIDIA buyer at hyperscale

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AI CONSUMERSsupplies GPU servers to

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About this company

QWhat is Super Micro's role in the AI chip supply chain?

Leading GPU server ODM for AI data centers

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