Supermicro

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company_name = Super Micro Computer Inc.
Trade name is Supermicro
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foundation = 1993
founder = Charles Liang
location_city = San Jose, CA
location_country = U.S.A
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industry = Computer industry
products = Motherboard
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homepage = [http://www.supermicro.com/ www.supermicro.com]
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Super Micro Computer Inc. or Supermicro (nasdaq|SMCI) is a computer hardware company founded in 1993 by Charles Liang.The company designs products including motherboards, servers, blade server, chassis, and heat sinks. The company specializes in mid-range to high-end computer equipment and is known for the high quality of its products. While many companies follow gaming and entertainment applications, Supermicro has focused on serious computing applications in servers/workstations and most recently, in data center environments. Consequently the products (especially Motherboards) are well-known for stability and reliability rather than overclocking features.

It is the only notable motherboard manufacturer that never went along with the trend to give bright or otherwise distinctive colors to various components on a motherboard. Their boards have always retained a conventional appearance.

Supermicro is also one of the last motherboard manufacturers to start making boards that work with AMD processors. They still have not released any consumer/desktop board for any AMD processor and only have a limited range of Opteron-based solutions.

Supermicro is also the only mainstream motherboard manufacturer that has released motherboards for the Itanium 2 platform.

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed a lawsuit against them for violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) of BusyBox software.cite web| title= SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBox Developers|work= SFLC official site | publisher=Software Freedom Law Center | url=http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/jun/10/busybox/ | accessdate=2008-07-30]

Motherboard Naming System

One of the peculiarities of motherboard names is that it can be hard to find any kind of logic in them. Most manufacturers give their products a name that consists of a sequence of letters and numbers, and it can be daunting to understand which part of the name stands for what. Unfortunately, Supermicro is no exception (with the re-use of certain characters meaning different things in every newer generation), however there are some general characteristics of the names they use which can be handy to know when you are looking at their products. Below is a short list of these names.

***NOTE: This model naming scheme is as of 2007.
Prior to this some of the characters above had alternate meaning (i.e.: +)

So for example...

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See also

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References

External links

* [http://www.supermicro.com/ Official website]