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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a prominent player in the Technology Hardware industry with remarkable revenue growth of 125% over the last twelve months, has unveiled a new high-density storage server designed to optimize software-defined storage workloads in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as well as analytics and enterprise storage applications. According to InvestingPro analysis, the company maintains strong financial health with a current ratio of 6.38, indicating robust operational capability. The announcement was made at the GTC 2025 Conference on Monday.
The company’s latest offering, known as the Supermicro Petascale storage server, integrates the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, which features 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores. This combination is aimed at delivering high-performance I/O for software-defined storage workloads with improved power efficiency.
Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro, stated, "The Supermicro Petascale server with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip highlights our focus on innovation and customer choice. We have demonstrated that the system can fully unleash the system’s PCIe Gen5 performance SSD bandwidth with linear scalability." This innovation comes as the company trades at an attractive P/E ratio of 15.7x relative to its growth potential, as reported by InvestingPro.
Supermicro’s ARS-121L-NE316R 1U storage system, which is part of the Petascale server lineup, supports 16 hot-swap EDSFF PCIe Gen5 E3.S NVMe drives, allowing for a raw capacity of 983TB using 61.44TB SSDs. A single rack containing 40 of these systems can provide up to 39.3PB of raw storage capacity.
NVIDIA’s Rob Davis, vice president of storage networking technology, commented on the collaboration, "This new storage server allows customers to benefit from NVIDIA’s innovations in both CPUs and DPUs to accelerate networking protocols, such as GPUDirect Storage, while using less power than comparable x86 servers."
In addition, Supermicro has partnered with WEKA to enhance the performance of WEKA’s Data Platform, a high-performance storage software for AI, HPC, and enterprise data management workloads. The server’s architecture, which includes 960GB of LPDDR5X on the CPU platform and support for two NVIDIA BlueField-3 or ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, is expected to maximize the performance of WEKA’s zero-copy architecture with lower power utilization.
Nilesh Patel, Chief Product Officer at WEKA, shared results from initial testing, "Initial testing of WEKA Data Platform software running on Supermicro’s petascale storage server with the NVIDIA Grace CPU-based pre-production cluster shows significant performance scaling and power efficiency."
The new Petascale storage server will be presented in more detail at NVIDIA GTC in an On-Demand session. This article is based on a press release statement from Super Micro Computer, Inc. For investors seeking deeper insights, InvestingPro offers comprehensive analysis of SMCI’s financials, including 16 additional ProTips and a detailed Pro Research Report, which transforms complex Wall Street data into actionable intelligence for smarter investing decisions.
In other recent news, Supermicro has announced the expansion of its GPU server offerings, integrating the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs into its portfolio. This move is aimed at enhancing performance for various AI and computing workloads. Supermicro has also unveiled new edge AI servers featuring Intel’s latest Xeon 6 processors, designed to boost AI capabilities at the edge. In a significant development, Supermicro is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley with a new third campus, which is expected to contribute to job creation and economic growth in the region.
Northland recently raised its price target for Supermicro to $70, maintaining an Outperform rating on the company’s shares. This adjustment follows an analysis of market dynamics and industry events. Meanwhile, Mizuho Securities has maintained a Neutral rating on Supermicro, with a consistent price target of $50. The firm highlighted Supermicro’s regained compliance with NASDAQ listing requirements after filing its delayed financial reports. Mizuho also noted the company’s prospects in liquid cooling technology, which is expected to grow significantly in collaboration with NVIDIA.
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