fung_derf
2 weeks ago
I might need to buy some of the convertible notes
Supermicro Announces Pricing of Private Offering of $2.0 Billion of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2030
Business Wire12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Jun 24, 2025
Supermicro Announces Pricing of Private Offering of $2.0 Billion of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2030
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) (“Supermicro” or the “Company”), a Total IT Solution Manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced the pricing of $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2030 (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes are being offered and sold to persons reasonably believed to be “qualified institutional buyers” pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Company also granted an option to the initial purchasers to purchase up to an additional $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes within a 13-day period from, and including, the date the Convertible Notes are first issued.
The Convertible Notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of the Company. The Convertible Notes will not bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the Convertible Notes will not accrete. Special interest and additional interest will accrue on the Convertible Notes in the circumstances and at the rates described in the indenture governing the Convertible Notes.
The Convertible Notes will have an initial conversion rate of 18.1154 shares of the Company's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes (which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $55.20 per share of the Company’s common stock, representing an initial conversion premium of approximately 35.0% above the closing price of $40.89 per share of the Company’s common stock on June 23, 2025). The conversion rate and conversion price will be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events.
The Convertible Notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part (subject to a partial redemption limitation of $100.0 million as described in the indenture governing the Convertible Notes (the “indenture”)), for cash at the Company’s option at any time, and from time to time, on or after June 15, 2028 and on or before the 20th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, but only if: (i) the Convertible Notes are “freely tradable” (as defined in the indenture), and all accrued and unpaid additional interest, if any, has been paid, as of the date the Company sends the related redemption notice; and (ii) the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for a specified period of time. The redemption price will be equal to the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid special and additional interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Holders of the Convertible Notes will have the right, subject to a limited exception set forth in the indenture, to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Convertible Notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change (as defined in the indenture governing the Convertible Notes) at a cash repurchase price of 100% of their principal amount plus any accrued and unpaid special and additional interest, if any, to, but excluding the applicable repurchase date. The Convertible Notes will mature on June 15, 2030, unless earlier redeemed, repurchased or converted in accordance with their terms prior to such date. Prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding December 17, 2029, the Convertible Notes will be convertible only upon the satisfaction of certain conditions and during certain periods, and on and after December 17, 2029, at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, the Convertible Notes will be convertible regardless of these conditions. The Company will settle conversions by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s common stock at the Company’s election. The Company expects to close the offering on June 26, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of various customary closing conditions.
The Company will receive net proceeds from the offering of approximately $1.96 billion (or approximately $2.26 billion if the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional Convertible Notes in full). The Company expects to use $158.4 million of the net proceeds of the offering to fund the cost of entering into the capped call transactions described below. The Company also expects to use approximately $200.0 million of the net proceeds to repurchase shares of its common stock concurrently with this offering as described below. The Company intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including to fund working capital for growth and business expansion. If the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional Convertible Notes, the Company intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of additional Convertible Notes to fund the cost of entering into additional capped call transactions, with the remainder to be used for general corporate purposes as set forth above.
In connection with the pricing of the Convertible Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions with certain of the initial purchasers or their affiliates and other financial institutions (the “option counterparties”). The capped call transactions will cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Convertible Notes, the number of shares of the Company’s common stock underlying the Convertible Notes.
The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes and/or offset any potential cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. The cap price of the capped call transactions is initially $81.78 per share of the Company’s common stock, which represents a premium of 100% above the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq on June 23, 2025, and is subject to customary adjustments.
In connection with establishing their initial hedges for the capped call transactions, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates expect to enter into various derivative transactions with respect to the Company’s common stock and/or purchase shares of the Company’s common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the Convertible Notes. This activity could increase (or reduce the size of any decrease in) the market price of the Company's common stock or the Convertible Notes at that time. In addition, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivatives with respect to the Company's common stock and/or purchasing or selling the Company’s common stock or other securities of the Company in secondary market transactions following the pricing of the Convertible Notes and prior to the maturity of the Convertible Notes (and are likely to do so during any observation period related to a conversion of the Convertible Notes or following any repurchase of the Convertible Notes by the Company to the extent the Company elects to unwind a corresponding portion of the capped call transactions in connection with such repurchase). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of the Company’s common stock or the Convertible Notes, which could affect noteholders’ ability to convert the Convertible Notes, and, to the extent the activity occurs during any observation period related to a conversion of the Convertible Notes, it could affect the amount and value of the consideration that noteholders will receive upon conversion of the Convertible Notes.
The Company expects to repurchase approximately 4.9 million shares of its common stock concurrently with the offering from purchasers of the Convertible Notes in privately negotiated transactions effected through one of the initial purchasers of the Convertible Notes or its affiliate, as the Company’s agent. These concurrent share repurchases, and any other repurchases of shares of the Company’s common stock, may increase, or reduce the size of a decrease in, the trading price of the Company’s common stock, and repurchases executed concurrently with the pricing of this offering may affect the initial terms of the Convertible Notes, including the initial conversion price. In addition, any repurchases following this offering could affect the trading price of the Convertible Notes or the Company’s common stock and, if conducted during an observation period for the conversion of any Convertible Notes, could affect the amount and value of the consideration that is due upon such conversion.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Convertible Notes or the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, if any, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Any offer of these securities will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum.
The offer and sale of the Convertible Notes and the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, if any, have not been registered under the Securities Act, or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Oleblue
2 weeks ago
Super Micro Computer, Inc. Announces Closing of Private Offering of $2.3 Billion of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2030
June 26, 2025
Enables Continued Expansion of the AI Infrastructure Business
The Funding will Support Continued Expansion of US and Global Manufacturing, Expansion of Supermicro’s Product Line from Systems, Racks to Complete Data Center Building Block Solutions and Support Capital Required for Customer Growth
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) (“Supermicro” or the “Company”), a Total IT Solution Manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced the closing of $2.3 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2030 (the “notes”) including the exercise in full of the option granted to the initial purchasers to purchase up to $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of notes.
“We want to thank our investors who share our vision,” said Charles Liang, CEO and Founder. “As customer demand for next-generation GPU platforms continues to build, this was an opportunistic capital raise that strengthens the balance sheet with minimal dilution, ensuring continued support of customers’ aggressive growth plans for AI enabled DCBBS solutions to accelerate their build out."
The convertible offering was structured with an extremely attractive 0.00% interest rate, a five-year maturity and an initial conversion price of $55.20 per share, representing an initial conversion premium of approximately 35.0% above the closing price of $40.89 per share of the Company’s common stock on June 23, 2025 and, coupled with our concurrent stock repurchase and capped call, was designed to minimize shareholder impact.
As part of the transaction, Supermicro purchased a capped call hedge to increase the effective conversion premium to 100% of Supermicro’s share price on June 23, 2025. As a result of the related capped call transactions, dilution or cash obligations upon a conversion of the notes should be mitigated by the increase in the effective conversion price of the notes to $81.78 per share of Supermicro’s common stock, which represents a premium of 100% over the last reported sale price of Supermicro’s common stock of $40.89 per share on June 23, 2025.
Supermicro also purchased approximately $200 million in shares of its common stock from purchasers of the notes, which was intended to reduce the potential impact of certain hedging activities in connection with the offering.
Supermicro has the optionality to settle any conversions in cash, shares of its common stock, or a combination of cash and shares to further influence potential dilution or cash obligations upon any future conversion of the notes.
About Supermicro
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions manufacturer with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, the potential dilution or cash obligations relating to the conversion of the notes, the Company’s plans for growth and its ability to support its customers’ growth plans, the use of the net proceeds from the sale of the notes, the impact of certain hedging activities by purchasers of the notes, and the future settlement of the conversion of the notes. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of the words “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend” and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and beliefs about future events and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by the forward-looking statements. Those risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the anticipated effects of holders of the Convertible Notes or the option counterparties entering into or unwinding derivative transactions with respect to the Company’s common stock and/or purchasing or selling the Company’s common stock, market and general conditions, and risks relating to the Company’s business, including those described in periodic reports that the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake to update the statements included in this press release for subsequent developments, except as may be required by law.
Investor Relations Contact:
Nicole Noutsios
Stratos Advisors
email: ir@supermicro.com
Source: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
https://ir.supermicro.com/news/news-details/2025/Super-Micro-Computer-Inc--Announces-Closing-of-Private-Offering-of-2-3-Billion-of-Convertible-Senior-Notes-Due-2030/default.aspx
Looks like November saw a bottom in the price and the OBV has started to turn up.
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Oleblue
2 months ago
Supermicro's Revolutionary Data Center Building Block Solutions® (DCBBS) Simplify and Shorten Global-Scale Buildouts of AI/IT Liquid-Cooled Data Centers
May 15, 2025
Easy-to-design, easy-to-build, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-operate solution for all critical computing and cooling infrastructure
Quick time-to-deployment and quick time-to-online with everything required to fully outfit AI/IT data centers
Saving cost with modularized building block solution architecture from system to rack to data center scale
High quality and high availability with Supermicro's industry-leading design, manufacturing capacity, management software, on-site services, and global support
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing Data Center Building Block Solutions, the easiest solution to overcome the immense complexities of outfitting liquid cooled AI factories with all critical infrastructure components, including servers, storage, networking, rack, liquid cooling, software, services, and support. As an expansion of Supermicro's System Building Block Solutions, DCBBS adopts a standardized, yet flexible solution architecture, vastly expanded in scope to handle the most demanding AI data center training and inference workloads, enabling easier data center planning, buildout, and operation – all while reducing cost.
DCBBS
"Supermicro's DCBBS enables clients to easily construct data center infrastructure with the fastest time-to-market and time-to-online advantage, deploying as quickly as three months," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "With our total solution coverage, including designing data center layouts and network topologies, power and battery backup-units, DCBBS simplifies and accelerates AI data center buildouts leading to reduced costs and improved quality."
For more information, please visit www.supermicro.com/DCBBS
DCBBS offers packages of pre-validated data center-level scalable units, including a 256-node AI Factory DCBBS scalable unit, designed to alleviate the burden of prolonged data center design by providing a streamlined package of floor plans, rack elevations, bill of materials, and more. Supermicro provides comprehensive first-party services to ensure project success, starting from consultation to on-site deployment and continued on-site support. DCBBS is customizable at the system-level, rack cluster-level, and data center-level to meet virtually any project requirements.
Along with our DLC-2 technology, DCBBS also helps customers save up to 40% power, reducing 60% data center footprint, and decreasing 40% water consumption, all of which leads to 20% lower TCO.
AI Factory Data Center-Level Scalable Unit
The need for AI infrastructure continues to scale: AI training clusters require clusters of thousands of GPUs to develop foundation models. AI inference applications are also leveraging more test-time compute capacity by running multiple inference passes with a mixture of models to deliver greater intelligence. Supermicro's AI Factory DCBBS package fully equips data centers to tackle these rising AI computational requirements.
Solutions from Supermicro include up to 256 Liquid Cooled 4U Supermicro NVIDIA HGX™ system nodes, each system equipped with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (2,048 GPUs in total), interconnected with up to 800Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum™ X Ethernet networking platform. The compute fabric is supported by elastically scalable tiered storage with high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe, TCO optimized Data Lake nodes, and resilient management system nodes for continuous uninterrupted operation.
System-Level, Rack-Level, and Data Center-Level Customization
Supermicro features a modular building block approach, composed of three hierarchical levels: the system-level, rack-level, and data center level, giving customers unparalleled design options in determining a system-level bill of materials, down to selecting individual components, including CPUs, GPUs, DIMMs, drives, and NICs. System-level customization ensures the ability to meet specialized hardware requirements for a particular data center workloads and applications and allows for granular fine-tuning of data center resources.
Supermicro aids in designing rack enclosure elevation layouts to ensure optimization for thermals and cabling, giving customers the ability to select the type of rack enclosure, including 42U, 48U, and 52U configurations.
After the initial consultation with the customer, Supermicro delivers a project proposal tailored to a given data center power budget, performance target, or other requirements.
Supermicro DLC-2
With liquid-cooled data centers growing from less than 1% of the market to an expected 30% within a year, Supermicro is driving the industry-wide adoption of DLC by helping customers achieve the challenge of needing to build new liquid-cooled data centers that can more efficiently remove heat.
DLC provides unmatched efficiency by capturing heat directly from the individual chips, including AI GPUs running at 1000W TDP and beyond. Liquid cooling infrastructure is planned and deployed at data center scale, including the piping and facility-side liquid cooling tower for heat dissipation. Supermicro leads the industry in providing a total solution for direct-to-chip liquid cooling infrastructure, consisting of DLC systems, in-rack or in-row coolant distribution units, coolant distribution manifolds, cooling towards, and more. Supermicro's DLC-2 brings further improvements:
Cold Plates
CPU, GPU, PCle Switch, DIMM, VRM, PSU and more
Max Inlet Water Temperature
Up to 45°C
Noise Level
As low as 50dB
LC Heat Capture
Up to 98%
Data Center Power Savings (vs. Air-cooling)
Up to 40%
Service & Software Building Blocks
DCBBS includes the services required to achieve time-to-market and time-to-online quickly, without having to drain the customer's own IT resources. Supermicro offers a complete portfolio of service-level building blocks such as datacenter design, solution validation, and professional onsite deployment. It includes continued on-site support to ensure long-term success, along with a 4-hour Onsite Response time option for mission-critical uptime.
Supermicro's SuperCloud Composer® provides a suite of infrastructure management capabilities, with rich analytics that manage compute, storage, and network building blocks at cloud scale.
In addition to services, Supermicro has broad expertise in data center application integration, including AI training, AI inferencing, cluster management, and workload orchestration. This includes supporting customers deploying the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Supermicro provides full services for software provisioning and validation based on the customer's software stack.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
https://ir.supermicro.com/news/news-details/2025/Supermicros-Revolutionary-Data-Center-Building-Block-Solutions-DCBBS-Simplify-and-Shorten-Global-Scale-Buildouts-of-AIIT-Liquid-Cooled-Data-Centers/default.aspx
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WebSlinger
2 months ago
Supermicro Rockets Higher on $20B Deal: Time to Buy SMCI Stock or Cash Out?
Super Micro Computer (SMCI), or Supermicro, is in the spotlight after announcing a massive $20 billion partnership with Saudi Arabian data center giant DataVolt. The news sent SMCI soaring, with the stock rising over 15% in morning trade on Wednesday, May 14. This significant deal not only boosts Supermicro’s growth prospects but also arrives at a crucial time, offering investors a reason to reconsider the stock despite recent struggles.
The multi-year agreement will see Supermicro supply ultra-dense GPU platforms and rack systems for DataVolt’s hyperscale AI campuses in Saudi Arabia and the United States. More importantly, the partnership allows Supermicro to expand its manufacturing capabilities while deepening its strategic ties in the global AI infrastructure market.
This announcement couldn’t have been more timely for a company that has faced intense scrutiny lately. Supermicro’s stock had been under considerable pressure due to a combination of negative headlines and disappointing financial results. Allegations of accounting manipulation, operational challenges, and a delayed annual filing had all weighed heavily on investor sentiment. The company avoided Nasdaq delisting by finally submitting its financials, but subsequent earnings results further pressured the stock.
Supermicro’s fiscal third-quarter results were a letdown, with revenues of $4.6 billion falling short of expectations. Management pointed to a pause in customer purchasing decisions as buyers hesitated between Nvidia’s (NVDA) Hopper GPUs and the next-generation Blackwell platform. This delay in AI infrastructure spending forced Supermicro to trim its full-year revenue guidance to a range of $21.8 billion to $22.6 billion, down from an earlier projection of $23.5 billion to $25 billion.
Despite these setbacks, the DataVolt partnership injects a fresh wave of optimism into Supermicro’s growth story. The deal reflects the robust demand for AI-driven GPU solutions and positions Supermicro as a key player in the global data center buildout. For investors, the long-term opportunity in AI infrastructure remains compelling, even if short-term uncertainties persist.
Supermicro’s business is aligned with the secular growth trends in AI computing. Today, AI GPU platforms contribute over 70% of the company’s total revenue, driven by strong demand from enterprise clients and cloud service providers. To meet this demand, Supermicro continues ramping production of its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), offering superior efficiency, lower power and water usage, and faster deployment for next-generation GPU systems.
A significant part of Supermicro’s edge comes from its leadership in green computing. The company’s advanced direct liquid cooling (DLC) technology has been a game-changer for data center efficiency. Last year, Supermicro shipped a significant number of high-power AI racks equipped with DLC technology. Its second-generation DLC-2 promises even better performance, further cementing Supermicro’s competitive advantage in the sustainable AI infrastructure market.
The company is also expanding its AI product portfolio and will offer the latest AI platforms from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nvidia. This broadening portfolio ensures Supermicro remains at the forefront of AI infrastructure innovation, positioning it to capture future growth opportunities.
On the global front, Supermicro is aggressively scaling its footprint. A new campus in Malaysia has begun shipping products, while facilities in Taiwan and Europe are ramping up operations. The company is also expanding its U.S. manufacturing capabilities to support key partners and government initiatives, fortifying its logistics network amid a challenging macroeconomic backdrop.
Is SMCI Stock a Buy or a Sell?
Supermicro has found itself at the heart of the AI infrastructure boom. Yet, recent market volatility and cautious spending from enterprise customers are casting a shadow over its near-term growth. Investors have seen the stock take a significant hit from its highs, raising concerns about its immediate prospects. However, stepping back from the noise, Supermicro’s long-term prospects remain solid.
While analysts maintain a “Hold,” the company’s leadership in DLC technology gives it a crucial edge as demand for energy-efficient AI data centers continues to rise. With a robust product pipeline and an aggressive global expansion strategy, Supermicro is well-positioned to capture a sizable share of the AI infrastructure market. These strengths suggest that SMCI stock is a solid long-term investment.
In the end, Supermicro’s $20 billion partnership with DataVolt could be the catalyst that reignites its growth trajectory and restores investor confidence.
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/32396035/supermicro-rockets-higher-on-20b-deal-time-to-buy-smci-stock-or-cash-out
Oleblue
2 months ago
The Saudi Arabia trip will spill over to all technology stocks, long but worth watching.
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Supermicro's DLC-2, the Next Generation Direct Liquid-Cooling Solutions, Aims to Reduce Data Center Power, Water, Noise, and Space, Saving on Electricity Cost by up to 40%, and Lowering TCO by up to 20%
May 14, 2025
Up to 40% power savings of data center
Faster time-to-deployment and reduced time-to-online by providing end-to-end liquid-cooling solution
Up to 40% reduced water consumption with warm water cooling now available at an inlet temperature of up to 45°C, reducing the necessity of chillers
Enabling quiet data center operation at ~50dB
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing several improvements to its Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) solution that incorporate new technologies for cooling various server components, accommodate warmer liquid inflow temperatures, and introduce innovative mechanical designs that enhance AI per watt. The Supermicro DLC-2 solution reduces data center power consumption by up to 40% compared to air-cooled installations. These advanced technologies enable faster deployment and reduced time-to-online for cutting-edge liquid-cooled AI infrastructure. Additionally, the total cost of ownership decreases by up to 20%. The comprehensive cold plate coverage of components allows for lower fan speeds and fewer required fans, significantly reducing data center noise levels to approximately 50dB.
Supermicro's Next-Generation Direct Liquid-Cooling Solutions (DLC-2)
"With the expected demand for liquid-cooled data centers rising to 30% of all installations, we realized that current technologies were insufficient to cool these new AI-optimized systems," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Supermicro continues to remain committed to innovation, green computing, and improving the future of AI, by significantly reducing data center power and water consumption, noise, and space. Our latest liquid-cooling innovation, DLC-2, saves data center electricity costs by up to 40%."
For more information, please visit www.supermicro.com/liquid-cooling
Supermicro aims to save 20% of data center costs and apply DLC-2 innovations as part of data center building block solutions to make liquid-cooling more broadly available and accessible.
A significant component of the new liquid-cooling architecture is a GPU-optimized Supermicro server, which includes eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and two Intel® Xeon® 6 CPUs, all in just 4U of rack height. This system is designed to support increased supply coolant temperatures. This unique and optimized design incorporates cold plates for CPUs, GPUs, memory, PCIe switches, and voltage regulators. This design reduces the need for high-speed fans and rear-door heat exchangers, thereby lowering cooling costs for the data center.
The new Supermicro DLC-2 solution stack supports the new 4U front I/O NVIDIA HGX™ B200 8-GPU system, and the in-rack Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) has an increased capacity of removing 250kW of heat generated per rack. The Supermicro DLC-2 solution also utilizes vertical coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs) to remove hot liquid and return cooler liquid to the servers for the entire rack. The reduced rack space requirements enables more servers to be installed, increasing computing density per unit of floor space. The vertical CDM is available in various sizes, precisely matching the number of servers installed in the rack. The entire DLC-2 solution stack is fully integrated with Supermicro SuperCloud Composer® software for data center-level management and infrastructure orchestration.
The efficient liquid circulation and nearly full liquid-cooling heat capture coverage, at up to 98% per server rack, allow for an increase in the inlet liquid temperature at up to 45°C. The higher inlet temperature eliminates the need for chilled water, chiller compressor equipment cost, and additional power usage, saving up to 40% of data center water consumption.
Combined with liquid-cooled server racks and clusters, DLC-2 also offers hybrid cooling towers as well as water towers as part of data center building blocks. The hybrid cooling towers combine the features of standard dry and water towers into a single design. This is especially beneficial in data center locations with strong seasonal temperature variation to reduce usage of resources and costs further.
Supermicro serves as a comprehensive one-stop solution provider with global manufacturing scale, delivering data center-level solution design, liquid-cooling technologies, networking, cabling, a full data center management software suite, L11 and L12 solution validation, onsite deployment, and professional service and support. With production facilities across San Jose, Europe, and Asia, Supermicro offers unmatched manufacturing capacity for liquid-cooled rack systems. This ensures timely delivery, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), and consistent quality.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
https://ir.supermicro.com/news/news-details/2025/Supermicros-DLC-2-the-Next-Generation-Direct-Liquid-Cooling-Solutions-Aims-to-Reduce-Data-Center-Power-Water-Noise-and-Space-Saving-on-Electricity-Cost-by-up-to-40-and-Lowering-TCO-by-up-to-20/default.aspx
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