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Supermicro company history timeline

1993

In 1993, Supermicro began as a 5 person operation run by Charles Liang alongside his wife and company treasurer, Chiu-Chu Liu, known as Sara.

2003

He also served as a COO of Orient Semiconductor Electronics Philippines, from July 2003, where he still serves as a Director.

Hsu has served in various senior positions with the Company since October 2003.

2006

Don joined Supermicro in April of 2006 and over a period of 12 years, held a series of increasingly senior sales and marketing roles.

In 2006, Super Micro pleaded guilty to a felony charge and paid a $150,000 fine.

2007

March 29, 2007 announced IPO and traded on NASDAQ

2009

In 2009, Supermicro sold about $720 million worth of computer servers and related products and employed almost 1,100 people.

2010

Embedded/IPC system selected as "Best Server of 2010" by Electronic Design Magazine

2012

In 2012, Supermicro debuted it’s 2U and 4U/Tower platforms.

2014

In September 2014, Supermicro moved its corporate headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California along Interstate 880, naming the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park.

In 2014, the GCIC Center Tokyo Institute of Technology’s TSUBAME-KFC supercomputer, from Supermicro, was ranked first on the Green 500 list.

2016

George joined Supermicro in October 2016 as the Vice President of Operations.

2017

Bauer has previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy since January 2017.

2018

Before taking on this role, he has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer since May 2018.

On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published a report, citing unnamed corporate and governmental sources, which claimed that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had forced Supermicro's Chinese sub-contractors to add microchips with hardware backdoors to its servers.

2019

Alex Hsu is Supermicro’s Chief Operating Officer appointed by the Board of Directors on September 6, 2019.

2021

David Weigand was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in February 2021.

On December 11, 2021, the Dutch radio program Argos aired an episode about European investments in China and how those investments are used to suppress the Uyghur ethnic group in the province of Xinjiang.

On December 21, 2021, the Washington Post together with Russian dissident authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, accused the company of supplying 30 servers to the Moscow control center for Internet censorship in Russia.

2022

Command Center with Autoconfigurator Launched to Support Cloud, and PnP Enterprise Applications; 2022 - NAB Product of the Year

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