Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems
The Next Platform, Thursday, September 28,2023
There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today.
Three decades ago, Supermicro and its sister company, Ablecom, were both family affairs, as sometimes happens with startups. But we don't see a lot of this in the high tech industry. (One notable example from this week is the brother-sister team behind AI startup Anthropic.)
Charles Liang, Supermicro's ebullient founder, got his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taiwan and then got his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.