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by Throwawayhahzoh 820 days ago
They do sell some smaller AI platforms on their store in category https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/solutions/artificial-inte... but seeing as https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/8u/as-8125... is designed to hold as many as 8 AMD AI cards and has 6 3000W redundant power supplies, plus as you said there's a great deal of ceremony in getting one and AMD knows every customer....

See also its Nvidia equivalent https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/8u/as-8125... which is implicitly on allocation because TSMC has been contracted to make only so many H100 chips per unit of time, I think I heard 550,000 for 2023. I remember seeing that the Nvidia cards list at around $30K each....

I think the store is more for stuff that's in more plentiful supply and less ITAR restricted, with a limited number of SKUs and options for each that they're prepared to support for a long time.