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Charles Liang
Born
Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese-American
EducationB.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
OccupationBusinessman, electrical engineer
CompanySuper Micro Computer, Inc. (Supermicro)
TitleFounder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Net worthUS$6.1 billion (Forbes estimate, 2024)[1]
SpouseSara Liu (Chiu-Chu Liu)
Children5

Charles Liang (born circa 1957)[2][3] is a Taiwanese-born American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Super Micro Computer, Inc., commonly known as Supermicro, in September 1993 and has served since then as its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.[3] Based in San Jose, California, the company designs and manufactures server and storage hardware; under Liang it grew from a five-person motherboard shop he ran himself into an enterprise that reported net sales of $39.1 billion for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2026, driven heavily by servers Liang's engineers built around artificial intelligence accelerator chips.[4]

Liang's tenure has been shaped as much by regulatory and governance episodes as by the company's revenue growth. In August 2024, Liang's board told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in a Form NT 10-K, that it could not file its annual report on time because the board had formed a special committee to review internal controls and governance matters; Liang's outside auditor, Ernst & Young, resigned two months later while that review was still open.[5][6] Liang's company received two separate Nasdaq non-compliance notices over its delinquent filings before becoming current again in February 2025.[7][8] In March 2026 federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Liaw, Liang's co-founder and then-fellow director, and two other individuals with conspiring to divert billions of dollars of servers containing controlled artificial intelligence chips to China; the Department of Justice's own release states that the allegations in the indictment are allegations only, the company itself was not named as a defendant, and Liaw resigned from Liang's board days later.[9][10]

Liang was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States in 1986 to study electrical engineering.[2] He worked as an engineer for several Silicon Valley hardware firms before founding the company with his wife, Sara Liu, and a third colleague, Yih-Shyan Liaw, in September 1993.[3] He took the company public in 2007.[2] Liang also founded the Green Earth Foundation, a nonprofit focused on forestation, and in 2022 the foundation paid $12 million for a nearly 200-acre former ranch in Milpitas, California.[11]

Early life and education

Charles Liang was born in Taiwan in or around 1957; a 2010 newspaper profile gave his age as 53, and the company's 2026 proxy statement lists him as 68 years old as of 31 January 2026, both consistent with a birth year of 1957, though no exact birth date has been published.[2][3] He moved to the United States in 1986 to pursue graduate study.[2] Liang earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.[3][2] As a graduate student he worked on a chip design intended to help diagnose illnesses for a healthcare technology company, an early application of what he described as an "AI processor."[12]

Career

Early engineering career, 1988 to 1993

From January 1988 to April 1991, Liang worked as a senior design engineer and project leader for Chips and Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and for Suntek Information International Group, a systems and software development company.[3] From July 1991 to August 1993 he was president and chief design engineer of Micro Center Computer, Inc., a motherboard design and manufacturing company; his future wife and co-founder, Sara Liu, also held accounting and operational roles at Micro Center Computer during this period.[3]

Founding Supermicro, 1993

Liang founded Super Micro Computer, Inc. in San Jose, California, in September 1993, together with Sara Liu, who served as treasurer from the founding until May 2019 and later as senior vice president of operations and chief administrative officer, and Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, who served as an executive and board member from 1993 until his resignation in January 2018.[3] Liang's company began as a five-person operation and focused on configurable, high-performance motherboards and power supplies rather than the standardized servers sold by larger rivals such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell.[2] Liang's brothers, Steve Liang and Bill Liang, went on to run two Taiwan-based manufacturing partners, Ablecom Technology, Inc. and Compuware Technology, Inc., which produce chassis, power supplies and other components for Liang's company under long-running related-party agreements; as of 30 June 2025, Liang and Liu together owned approximately 10.5 percent of Ablecom's capital stock, while Steve Liang and his family owned approximately 35 percent.[3] Liang's Taiwan manufacturing subsidiary, Ablecom, was established in 1997.[12]

Liang took the company public in 2007.[2] He opened a factory in the Netherlands in 1998 to serve European customers, expanded that facility in 2010, and opened his first system-level factories in Taiwan in 2012.[12] In 2023 Liang broke ground on a factory in Malaysia.[12] By October 2010, in an interview with The Mercury News, Liang said his company employed almost 1,100 people and had sold about $720 million worth of servers and related products in the preceding fiscal year, with revenue up 43 percent and headcount up 20 percent year over year; he said he had continued hiring through the 2008 to 2009 recession, growing his engineering staff by almost 40 percent during the downturn.[2] By the fiscal year ended 30 June 2026, Liang's company employed more than 7,000 people, including roughly 3,500 in research and development, roughly 2,100 in manufacturing and roughly 600 in general and administrative functions, with more than 3,200 employees based at its San Jose headquarters.[10] Liang told The Mercury News in 2010 that expanding manufacturing into Taiwan and the Netherlands was driven partly by a shortage of American engineers willing to specialize in hardware design, saying "we've found that not many young people here like to focus on hardware, especially hardware design," while adding that he was deliberately pacing his overseas growth: "We don't want to grow too fast and get out of control."[2]

Shift toward "green computing", from the mid-2000s

Liang has said in interviews that his emphasis on energy-efficient server design grew out of a personal experience: after taking his children to see the film The Day After Tomorrow, he discussed climate change with them and began pushing his procurement and engineering teams toward higher-efficiency power supplies.[2] He told The Mercury News in 2010 that when outside suppliers were not interested in building more efficient components, he began designing his own, and that by 2010 he had 60 to 70 engineers dedicated to power-supply design.[2] Liang has since marketed "Green Computing" and, more recently, liquid-cooled "Data Center Building Block Solutions" (DCBBS) as differentiators for AI-era data centers.[13]

The 2017 to 2018 internal controls episode

In 2017, the company's Audit Committee investigated its sales and revenue recognition practices. In January 2018, in connection with a restructuring of the sales organization that followed that investigation, co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw resigned from all of his positions, including his board seat, at a time when the company was not current in its SEC filings.[3] Liaw later returned, first as a consultant to Liang in May 2021 and then as a full-time senior vice president of business development from August 2022, and was re-elected to the board in January 2024.[3] In its 2024 review of the company (described below), the special committee separately examined the subsequent decision to rehire nine individuals, including Liaw, who had resigned following the 2017 investigation.[14]

Allegations of implanted "spy chips", 2018

In October 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article alleging that a malicious hardware chip had been secretly implanted on Liang's motherboards during manufacturing, allowing Chinese intelligence services to infiltrate servers used by major American companies and government agencies. In an open letter to customers dated 18 October 2018, filed with the SEC as an exhibit, Liang stated that "no malicious hardware chip has been implanted during the manufacturing of our motherboards," and that "no one has shown us a motherboard containing any unauthorized hardware chip, we are not aware of any such unauthorized chip, and no government agency has alerted us to the existence of any unauthorized chip."[15] The letter described Liang's manufacturing safeguards, including automated optical inspections, periodic x-ray scans of motherboards, and a design process in which no single employee or contractor has complete "pin-to-pin" knowledge of a board's circuitry, which Liang argued made it "practically impossible" for an unauthorized component to be added and still function.[15] The letter noted that U.S. and UK security officials, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Director of National Intelligence and the UK's GCHQ, as well as customers Apple and Amazon, had publicly questioned or denied the allegations.[15]

Delayed filings, auditor resignation and Nasdaq compliance, 2024 to 2025

On 27 August 2024, short-seller Hindenburg Research published a report alleging accounting manipulation, undisclosed related-party dealings involving Liang's siblings, and evasion of export sanctions; Supermicro's 2026 annual report states that the company regards the report as containing "false or inaccurate statements," including misleading presentations of information it had previously disclosed publicly.[10] Three days later, on 30 August 2024, Supermicro filed a Form NT 10-K with the SEC stating that it could not timely file its annual report for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2024 because its board had formed a committee, later called the Special Committee, to review internal controls and related matters after information was brought to the Audit Committee's attention; the filing listed Liang himself as the company's contact for the notification.[5] The board appointed a new independent director, Susie Giordano, in August 2024 specifically to chair the Special Committee, which engaged outside counsel Cooley LLP and the forensic accounting firm Secretariat Advisors, LLC.[14]

On 24 October 2024, Supermicro's auditor, Ernst & Young, sent the Audit Committee a letter of resignation. According to the 8-K Supermicro filed reporting the resignation, EY had told the Audit Committee in late July 2024 that it had concerns about "governance, transparency and completeness of communications," and in its resignation letter EY stated it was "resigning due to information that has recently come to our attention which has led us to no longer be able to rely on management's and the Audit Committee's representations and to be unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management."[6] Supermicro stated in the same filing that it disagreed with EY's decision and that EY had not yet seen all of the information gathered by the Special Committee.[6] The company did not expect the matters under review to require restating its financial statements for fiscal 2024 or earlier years.[6]

On 18 November 2024, Supermicro announced that its Audit Committee had engaged BDO USA, P.C. as its new independent auditor and that it had submitted a compliance plan to Nasdaq requesting more time to file its overdue annual and quarterly reports. Liang was quoted saying, "BDO is a highly respected accounting firm with global capabilities. This is an important next step to bring our financial statements current, an effort we are pursuing with both diligence and urgency."[16] Two days later, Supermicro disclosed that Nasdaq had notified it that it was not in compliance with Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely SEC filings, because of the delayed fiscal 2024 Form 10-K and a delayed first-quarter fiscal 2025 Form 10-Q.[7] On 6 December 2024, Nasdaq granted Supermicro an exception allowing it until 25 February 2025 to file the outstanding reports while remaining listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.[17]

The Special Committee completed its review and reported its findings on 2 December 2024. According to Supermicro's press release summarizing the findings, the investigation involved more than 9,000 hours of work by Cooley LLP and more than 2,500 hours by Secretariat's forensic accountants, the collection and review of roughly 4.1 terabytes of data from 89 individuals, and 68 witness interviews.[14] The Special Committee reported that it found no evidence of fraud or misconduct by management or the board, that the Audit Committee had acted independently, and that EY's stated reasons for resigning were "not supported by the facts examined in the Review."[14] The Special Committee also reported that no restatement of Supermicro's previously reported financial statements was expected.[14] It had specifically examined the 2022 rehiring of nine individuals, including Liaw, who had left the company following the 2017 Audit Committee investigation; the committee concluded the rehiring decisions reflected "reasonable business judgment" but found "lapses" in ensuring rehiring guardrails were consistently observed.[14] It also reviewed current sales and revenue recognition practices around quarter-end, export control compliance procedures, and related-party disclosures.[14] The board adopted all of the committee's recommendations, including searching for a new chief financial officer (with incumbent David Weigand continuing until a successor was named), appointing Kenneth Cheung as chief accounting officer, and accelerating searches for a chief compliance officer and a general counsel.[14] On 31 March 2025, the board appointed Scott Angel, a former Deloitte audit partner, as a new independent director, and promoted Yitai Hu to general counsel and senior vice president of corporate development, reporting directly to Liang.[18]

Supermicro filed its delayed Form 10-K for fiscal year 2024, along with delinquent quarterly reports, on 25 February 2025, bringing its SEC filings current.[8] On 25 February 2025, Nasdaq notified the company that it had regained compliance with Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) and closed the matter.[8]

Export control indictment and departure of co-founder Wally Liaw, 2026

On 19 March 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, Supermicro's co-founder and, at the time, a senior vice president of business development and board member, along with Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, a general manager in the company's Taiwan office, and Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, described as a third-party broker, with conspiring to violate U.S. export control laws by diverting servers containing controlled artificial intelligence graphics processing units to customers in China.[9] The Department of Justice's press release states that "the entirety of the text of the indictment and the descriptions of the indictment constitute only allegations, and every fact described should be treated as an allegation," and alleges that the defendants used a Southeast Asian intermediary company, falsified documents and staged decoy servers to pass compliance inspections while reselling the equipment into China.[9] Liaw and Sun were arrested; Chang was described by the Department of Justice as a fugitive.[9]

According to the indictment as described in the Department of Justice's release, the defendants allegedly arranged for an intermediary company in Southeast Asia to place purchase orders for Supermicro-made servers equipped with controlled GPUs, then repackaged and rerouted the servers to China; prosecutors allege that between 2024 and 2025 the intermediary purchased approximately $2.5 billion worth of servers this way, including roughly $510 million diverted to China in a single stretch between late April and mid-May 2025. The release describes allegations that, to deceive Supermicro's own compliance team during an August 2025 audit and a separate U.S. Department of Commerce inspection, the defendants staged thousands of non-functioning "dummy" servers at a warehouse, in one instance using a hair dryer to remove and reaffix labels and serial-number stickers so the decoy units would pass visual inspection; the department published photographs of the alleged dummy servers with its release.[9] The Department of Justice again emphasizes that these are allegations that have not been proven in court.[9]

Supermicro's fiscal 2026 Form 10-K states that the company itself "is not named as a defendant or alleged to be a co-conspirator" in the indictment, that the three individuals charged were no longer employed by or associated with the company, and that the company was cooperating with the government's investigation.[10] The filing also discloses that Supermicro had received grand jury subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and separate subpoenas from the SEC, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Industry and Security's Office of Export Enforcement, seeking documents related to the individuals named in the indictment, a customer referenced in it, and the company's export compliance program.[10] Liaw resigned from Supermicro's board effective 20 March 2026.[10] Supermicro's 10-K states that the indictment, the 2024 Hindenburg Research report and the company's history of delinquent SEC filings have together "contributed to significant volatility in, and declines of, the trading price of" its common stock.[10]

On an earnings call on 5 May 2026, Liang addressed the indictment directly, telling analysts, "Based on what we know so far, though that could change as the investigation progresses, no one from the company other than those named in the DOJ indictment were involved." He added, "I am personally shocked and saddened by these alleged actions, which in no way represent the values or ethics of this company," and said "Supermicro has zero tolerance for any employee who violates federal law," and that "Supermicro is not a defendant, nor a target of a grand jury investigation."[19] Liang also said Supermicro's relationships with chip suppliers including Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Broadcom would "stay as strong, if not stronger, at least as strong as before."[19] Supermicro shares rose 18 percent in after-hours trading following the call.[19]

Leadership and management style

Liang has described Supermicro's culture as "customer-focused" and "engineering-led," and has attributed the company's ability to bring new chip platforms to market ahead of larger rivals to close working relationships with chipmakers such as Intel and AMD and to a deliberate strategy of offering configurable systems rather than standardized boxes.[2] Discussing the 2008 to 2009 recession in 2010, he said Supermicro did not cut costs the way many competitors did, telling The Mercury News, "We didn't have room to get any smaller, so we found our chance to grow," and that the company kept hiring engineers through the downturn, growing engineering headcount by almost 40 percent.[2] He has also described trying to preserve elements of the company's early, family-run culture as it scaled, including a weekly buffet lunch for staff who work weekends.[2]

Supermicro's board and governance committee have cited Liang's "long familiarity with the company's business" and technical background as reasons for his continued service as both chief executive and board chairman, concluding in the 2026 proxy statement that combining the roles is appropriate given the board's relatively small size and Liang's standing as the company's founder.[3] The company's compensation structure under Liang has emphasized performance-based equity over cash salary: for several consecutive fiscal years Liang's reported base salary was $1, with his compensation instead tied to multi-year "CEO Performance Awards," a 2021 award that vested in full during fiscal year 2024 and a 2023 award issued the same year, rather than to an annual bonus program.[3] Supermicro's own risk disclosures acknowledge the degree to which the business depends on Liang personally, stating that if the company were to lose Liang, "our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, or any other key employee," it might not be able to execute its business strategy in a timely manner.[10]

Major deals and strategic decisions

Liang took Supermicro public in 2007.[2] He directed the company's vertical expansion into motherboard, power supply and server manufacturing across multiple countries, including the 1997 founding of the Taiwan-based manufacturing affiliate Ablecom, a Netherlands factory opened in 1998 and expanded in 2010, Taiwan system-assembly factories opened in 2012, and a Malaysia factory begun in 2023.[12] Beginning in the mid-2000s he steered Supermicro toward energy-efficient "green computing" server and power-supply design as a point of competitive differentiation, a strategy the company has extended into liquid-cooled, rack-scale "Data Center Building Block Solutions" aimed at AI data centers.[2][13] On 30 September 2024, as Supermicro's stock price rose with AI-related demand, the company adopted a ten-for-one stock split.[3] Facing the 2024 accounting and governance review, Liang's management team engaged BDO USA as a new independent auditor rather than contest Ernst & Young's resignation, and the board adopted the Special Committee's full slate of governance recommendations, including new senior compliance, accounting and legal hires.[16][14]

Financial and market performance

Under Liang, Supermicro's revenue grew from about $720 million in the fiscal year reported in 2010 to $15.0 billion in fiscal year 2024, $22.0 billion in fiscal year 2025, and $39.1 billion in fiscal year 2026.[2][13][4] Net income was $1.2 billion in fiscal 2024, $1.0 billion in fiscal 2025, and $2.2 billion in fiscal 2026.[13][4] Fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 net sales were $11.1 billion, with gross margin of 17.5 percent, up from 9.5 percent in the same quarter a year earlier.[4] Supermicro's headcount grew from almost 1,100 employees in 2010 to 5,684 full-time employees as of 30 June 2024 and more than 7,000 as of 30 June 2026.[2][20][10] According to reporting by The San Francisco Standard, Supermicro's share price rose from $112 to nearly $1,030 and its market capitalization rose from under $6 billion to nearly $60 billion between 2023 and early 2024, as the company's business shifted toward AI-optimized servers.[1] As of 31 January 2026, Liang and his wife Sara Liu together beneficially owned 82,084,339 shares of Supermicro common stock, or about 13.4 percent of shares outstanding, according to the company's proxy statement; Liang's holdings included 15,300,000 shares issuable on exercise of stock options.[3] Supermicro reported total cash and cash equivalents of $5.2 billion against total bank debt and convertible notes of $4.8 billion as of 30 June 2025.[13] Gross margin, which the company has said is being reshaped by a richer mix of enterprise customers and its newer building-block server architecture, was 11.2 percent for fiscal 2025 and 10.8 percent for fiscal 2026, after falling as low as 9.5 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 before recovering to 17.5 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.[13][4] Forbes estimated Liang's personal net worth at $6.1 billion in 2024, when he and Liu both appeared on its global billionaires list for the first time.[1]

Board memberships and outside roles

Liang has chaired Supermicro's board of directors since the company's founding in 1993 and sits on no other publicly disclosed corporate board.[3] He is the founder of the Green Earth Foundation, a nonprofit focused on forestation.[11]

Controversies

Supermicro's SEC filings and the Department of Justice's own public statements describe several regulatory and legal episodes touching the company during Liang's tenure as chief executive.

In October 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek alleged that Supermicro motherboards had been compromised with a hidden surveillance chip during manufacturing. Liang publicly and firmly denied the allegation in a letter to customers filed with the SEC, and multiple U.S. and UK government security officials, as well as customers Apple and Amazon, were reported in the letter to have questioned or denied the claims; no government agency is described in Supermicro's filings as having confirmed the existence of such a chip.[15]

Separately, a 2017 internal investigation by Supermicro's own Audit Committee into the company's sales and revenue recognition practices led, in January 2018, to the resignation of co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw and a restructuring of the sales organization, at a time when Supermicro was behind on its SEC filings.[3] Liaw was rehired as a consultant in 2021 and returned to full-time employment and the board in 2022 to 2024; Supermicro's 2024 Special Committee later reviewed that rehiring and the rehiring of eight other former employees, finding the decisions reflected reasonable business judgment but identifying "lapses" in applying the safeguards meant to accompany such rehires.[3][14]

In August 2024, short seller Hindenburg Research published a report alleging accounting manipulation, undisclosed related-party dealings involving Liang's siblings, and sanctions evasion at Supermicro; the company has stated in SEC filings that it regards the report as containing false or inaccurate statements.[10] The allegations coincided with Supermicro's inability to timely file its fiscal 2024 annual report, the resignation of its auditor Ernst & Young, and two Nasdaq non-compliance notices, all described in detail above and documented in the company's own NT 10-K, 8-K and press release filings.[5][6][7] An independent Special Committee that reviewed the matter reported in December 2024 that it found no evidence of fraud or misconduct by Liang, other members of management, or the board, and that no restatement of the company's financial statements was expected.[14] Supermicro has disclosed receiving SEC subpoenas related to this period, including a subpoena received 28 April 2026 that it stated sought documents overlapping with earlier requests.[10] When Supermicro eventually filed its delayed fiscal 2024 Form 10-K on 25 February 2025, management disclosed five specific material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting as of 30 June 2024: deficient information technology general controls over systems supporting financial reporting; inadequately designed controls over segregation of duties; insufficient controls over the review and approval of manual journal entries; inadequate documentation of controls over the completeness and accuracy of financial information; and insufficient controls to ensure timely, complete and accurate disclosure across several financial statement areas, including new leasing arrangements and new related-party transactions.[20] Management said it was remediating the weaknesses by hiring additional accounting, financial reporting and internal audit staff with public-company experience, adding monitoring controls over manual journal entries and IT system access, and upgrading its information technology systems.[20]

In March 2026, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and two other individuals, one a Taiwan-based Supermicro general manager and one a third-party broker, with conspiring to illegally export servers containing controlled artificial intelligence chips to China. The Department of Justice's release stresses that the allegations are unproven and that Supermicro itself is not charged.[9] Supermicro's 10-K confirms it is not named as a defendant, that the individuals charged are no longer associated with the company, and that it is cooperating with the government, while disclosing that it has also received subpoenas and inquiries from the SEC, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Industry and Security's Office of Export Enforcement, and foreign authorities related to the matter.[10] Liang told investors in May 2026 that, based on the company's knowledge at the time, no one beyond the individuals named in the indictment had been involved, while cautioning that this understanding could change as the investigation continued.[19]

Personal life

Liang is married to Sara Liu (Chiu-Chu Liu), whom he met while both worked at Micro Center Computer before co-founding Supermicro with her in 1993; Liu holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Providence University in Taiwan.[3] The couple have five children.[2] One of their children, also named Bill Liang, is employed in Supermicro's systems engineering organization in San Jose, distinct from Charles Liang's brother of the same name, who leads the Taiwan-based supplier Compuware Technology.[3] Supermicro's Green Earth Foundation lists an address in Fremont, California, matching a residential property there, according to property and business records reviewed by The Real Deal.[11] Liang has said he enjoys bicycling, golfing and hiking.[2]

Philanthropy

Liang founded the Green Earth Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing forestation.[11] In late 2022, the foundation paid $12 million, or roughly $62,000 an acre, to acquire a nearly 200-acre former ranch, Rancho Higuera, in Milpitas, California, that had been held by the same family since the 1870s; Liang said in a video released by the foundation that it intended to plant large numbers of trees on land in California and elsewhere.[11]

Recognition

Liang and his wife, Sara Liu, appeared on Forbes' global list of billionaires for the first time in 2024, with Forbes estimating Liang's net worth at $6.1 billion and Liu's at $1.4 billion.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 <ref>"How an AI boom turned Supermicro's founder into a new Silicon Valley billionaire".The San Francisco Standard.4 April 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 <ref>Bailey, Brandon."Mercury News interview: Charles Liang, founder, Super Micro Computer".15 October 2010.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. Definitive Proxy Statement (Schedule DEF 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.3 March 2026.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 <ref>"Supermicro Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.11 August 2026.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. Notification of Late Filing (Form NT 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.30 August 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. Current Report (Form 8-K), Item 4.01, Changes to Registrant's Certifying Accountant".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.30 October 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. is in Compliance with the Nasdaq Filing Requirements".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.26 February 2025.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 <ref>"Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China".U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs.19 March 2026.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.31 August 2026.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 <ref>"Supermicro Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.5 August 2025.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 <ref>"Supermicro Announces Completion of Review by Independent Special Committee".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.2 December 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 <ref>"Letter to Supermicro customers regarding Bloomberg Businessweek article".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.18 October 2018.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 <ref>"Supermicro Announces Appointment of BDO USA as Independent Auditor and Filing of Compliance Plan with Nasdaq".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.18 November 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  17. ↑ <ref>"Super Micro Computer Inc. Announces Receipt of Extension from Nasdaq Stock Market".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.6 December 2024.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  18. ↑ <ref>"Supermicro Appoints New Independent Director and General Counsel".Super Micro Computer, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.31 March 2025.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 <ref>"Supermicro CEO insists 'no one' beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme".Fortune.5 May 2026.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 <ref>"Super Micro Computer, Inc. Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.25 February 2025.Retrieved 28 September 2026.</ref>
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