Super Micro Computer shares jumped 15% after the server company said it’s shipping more than 100,000 graphics processing units used for artificial intelligence per quarter.
That could translate into several billions of dollars of orders if the average price of a GPU is around the cost of Nvidia‘s $30,000 chip. The GPU figure was revealed in an announcement about a new cooling product unveiled by Super Micro on Monday.
As one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, Super Micro makes computers that companies use as servers for data storage, websites, AI training models and more. The company said its new cooling product will allow data centers to spend less on hardware costs and cooling infrastructure for servers that typically need to be running constantly.
Super Micro also said it recently deployed more than 100,000 GPUs with liquid cooling solution “for some of the largest AI factories ever built,” as well as other …