Hewlett Packard Enterprise vs Super Micro Computer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Hardware · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Super Micro Computer — Hardware · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Super Micro and HPE each name the other as a principal competitor for data center infrastructure in their 10-Ks; both sell full AI racks and clusters.

4 shared capabilitiesShared product typeNamed in filingBuy data-centre AI compute

4 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list AI compute hardware, model inference, model training and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship hardware and infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Named in filing — “We believe our principal competitors include: global technology vendors, such as Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo; and ODMs, such as Foxconn, Quanta Computer, and Wiwynn Corporation.”

sec.gov · checked 2026-10-10

Buy data-centre AI compute — Rivals on this job — Equip a data centre to train and serve models — accelerators bought as chips, cards, servers or rack systems, or rented as dedicated cloud capacity.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldHewlett Packard EnterpriseSuper Micro Computer
StagePublicPublic match
Founded20151993 22 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, PlatformHardware, Infrastructure service
HeadquartersSpring, USASan Jose, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

AI compute hardwareModel inferenceModel trainingServer systems

Not verified for Super Micro Computer · 2

Data analysisWorkflow automation

Recorded for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Super Micro Computer’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Super Micro Computer has no capability Hewlett Packard Enterprise lacks, among the 4 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Infrastructure service

HPE Private Cloud AIInfrastructure service

Turnkey private AI stack co-engineered with NVIDIA, sold as integrated compute, storage and networking with a console to deploy, monitor and govern enterprise AI agents and models.

Hardware

HPE Compute XD690Hardware

8-GPU air-cooled server with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra (B300 HGX) accelerators for large AI model training, tuning and inferencing, part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12Hardware

4U rack server for AI inference supporting up to ten double-wide NVIDIA GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12Hardware

Rack server for generative AI workloads with up to two NVIDIA GH200 NVL2 superchips, used to train and deploy larger AI models and as a building block of HPE Private Cloud AI.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL585a Gen13Hardware

10U rack server for production AI with two AMD EPYC 9006 processors and up to eight double-wide GPUs, for inference, RAG and agentic AI workloads.

HPE ProLiant Compute XD685Hardware

8-GPU server for large AI model training with a choice of NVIDIA or AMD Instinct accelerators and AMD EPYC 9005 processors.

Super Micro Computer

Infrastructure service

SuperCloud Developer Console (SDX)Infrastructure service

Multi-tenant developer console for Supermicro GPU clusters that provisions GPU slices and ML pipelines in one click for training, fine-tuning, inference and benchmarking, with quotas, RBAC and GPU-utilisation monitoring.

Supermicro AI SuperClusterInfrastructure service

Turnkey liquid- or air-cooled AI clusters of NVIDIA GPU servers, built, tested and delivered as full racks for model training and inference.

Supermicro Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS)Infrastructure service

Supermicro's end-to-end AI data-centre offering that combines its GPU systems, storage, in-rack and in-row liquid cooling, power, networking, site cooling towers, management software and on-site deployment services into one validated build.

Hardware

Supermicro Super AI StationHardware

Liquid-cooled deskside or 5U rack AI system built on one NVIDIA GB300 superchip, with 748GB of coherent memory and 20 PFLOPS of FP4, for running, fine-tuning and developing AI models and agents on premises.

No counterpart

Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Super Micro Computer yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

HPE Aruba Networking CentralApplication

Cloud-native network management and AIOps for HPE Aruba Networking wired, wireless and SD-WAN devices, with AI-driven insights, self-driving automation and a GreenLake copilot, deployable as a cloud service, on-premises, as-a-service or in a virtual private cloud.

HPE Marvis AIApplication

AI network assistant that answers network questions in natural language and, when permitted, resolves WLAN, LAN, WAN and data-centre issues autonomously.

HPE OpsRamp SoftwareApplication

Hybrid cloud observability and AIOps software that unifies monitoring of on-premises, multicloud and AI workloads, uses an AI-powered Operations Copilot to cut alert noise and guide resolution, and automates routine fixes.

Mist AIApplication

Cloud AI-native networking platform from Juniper (now HPE) that applies AI models to network telemetry for proactive insights, recommendations and automated resolutions across wireless, wired and WAN, with the Marvis AI assistant on top.

Platform

GreenLake IntelligencePlatform

An agentic AIOps system HPE sells to its GreenLake subscription customers to automate and operate IT/network infrastructure.