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Super Micro Reports $60B Q4 Orders, Boosts Margin Outlook

7/22/2026

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Summary

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Super Micro Computer announced over $60 billion of new Q4 orders, lifted its margin outlook to 15%-17%, and shares rose 15%.
The margin lift stems from a favorable mix of AI servers that use Nvidia GPUs.
Revenue is expected near the low end of the $11-$12.5 billion range, below the $11.67 billion LSEG consensus.
The backlog set a record after $60 billion order surge, including an AI datacenter for SpaceX/xAI to be delivered over quarters.

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Historical Context

After NVIDIA unveiled its CUDA programming model in 2007, GPUs became viable for general-purpose computing, spurring data-center growth that saw 30 million GPU shipments by 2018. The momentum continued with the 2022 Hopper launch—NVIDIA sold 500,000 H100 accelerators in Q3 2023—and the 2024 Blackwell announcement, reinforcing the link between early GPU breakthroughs and today’s multi-billion-dollar AI server market.

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Story summary

Super Micro Computer announced over $60 billion of new Q4 orders, lifted its margin outlook to 15%-17%, and shares rose 15%.
The margin lift stems from a favorable mix of AI servers that use Nvidia GPUs.
Revenue is expected near the low end of the $11-$12.5 billion range, below the $11.67 billion LSEG consensus.
The backlog set a record after $60 billion order surge, including an AI datacenter for SpaceX/xAI to be delivered over quarters.

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