Super Micro Computer Debuts AMD EPYC-Powered MicroBlade Platform

Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) unveiled what it calls the industry's first and highest-density blade server platform powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AMD) EPYC 4005 series processors on Wednesday.

What's New With The MicroBlade

The new MicroBlade platform packs up to 40 server nodes into a single 6 rack unit enclosure and can scale to 320 server nodes in a standard 48 rack unit rack.

The system supports dual-port 25 Gigabit Ethernet networking via the Broadcom Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AVGO) BCM57414 controller, PCI Express Generation 5 E1.S solid-state drives, Double Data Rate 5 error-correcting code memory running at up to 5600 megatransfers per second, and security features including Trusted Platform Module 2.0, signed firmware, and a hardware root of trust.

Target Markets

The platform is aimed at multi-tenant web hosting, Kubernetes and microservices environments, edge deployments, object storage, e-commerce platforms, and cybersecurity applications, according to the company's announcement.

Recent Context

This launch follows a demonstration on Wednesday in which Supermicro, working alongside CPower Energy and Bentaus, showed that AI compute infrastructure using NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) B200 GPUs could act as a "Virtual Power Plant," responding to California grid signals in under 20 milliseconds.

Short interest in SMCI declined in the latest reporting period, dropping from 91.82 million shares to 86.19 million.

That represents 18.97% of the company's public float. With an average daily trading volume of 41.67 million shares, it would take approximately 2.07 days for short sellers to cover their positions.

SMCI Price Action: Super Micro Computer shares were down 6.67% at $31.52 at the time of publication on Thursday, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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