(Reuters) – Data center server maker Super Micro Computer Inc is looking to open a new site in the United States to assemble computers, possibly in Oregon, the East Coast or Midwest, Chief Executive Officer Charles Liang told Reuters on Thursday.
Supermicro supplies servers to cloud computing companies, both designing and manufacturing its own machines. That puts it somewhere between companies like Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. that design systems but tap contract manufacturers to make them or manufacturers like Quanta Computer Inc that make machines designed by others.
Liang said in an interview that server assembly was currently almost evenly split between Supermicro facilities in Taiwan and company headquarters in San Jose, California, although the company maintains some operations in China to supply its Chinese customers.
He said Supermicro was examining expansion in Asia – “in Taiwan or another country,” without giving further details – and in the United States.
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