SeaMicro
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Founded | July 2007 |
| Founder | Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Anil Rao |
| Defunct | April 16, 2015 |
| Fate | Acquired by AMD; operations discontinued |
| Products | Ultra-dense servers (SM10000, SM10000-XE, SM15000, 10U Rack Unit) |
| Parent | AMD |
SeaMicro, Inc. operated as a subsidiary under AMD, specializing in ultra-dense server technology. The company discontinued its operations on 16 April 2015.
History
SeaMicro was established in July 2007 by founders Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, and Anil Rao. The company secured its Series A investment from Crosslink Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson in December 2007, followed by a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures in 2009. In 2012, AMD acquired SeaMicro for $334 million. SeaMicro’s server solutions were extensively deployed in data center settings, notably at the Gene Center of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research purposes. In 2013, a collaboration with Verizon Communications was initiated to enhance their cloud infrastructure, offering configurable servers with processor speeds adjustable between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and memory scalable in 512 MB increments.
Products
The company's first offerings, the SM10000 and its variant SM10000-XE, achieved Red Hat Certification in 2011, qualifying them for Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The subsequent SM15000 model was compatible with Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi, as well as Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Advanced configurations reached specifications such as 5 petabytes of storage capacity, 64 CPU cores, support for up to 1,000 virtual machines, and bandwidth of 1.28 Tb/s. Another significant product was the 10U Rack Unit, capable of delivering as many as 2,048 CPU cores and 16 TB of RAM by leveraging SeaMicro’s proprietary "Freedom Fabric" technology to facilitate high-throughput data communication.
Awards
- GigaOM: GreenNet 2011 – Winner of 10 Big Ideas
- Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company in 2011
- Electronic Design: Recipient of the 2011 Best Electronic Design Award in the Computer Category
- Platts: Honored with the Rising Star Award in 2011
External links
- Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server – Presentation delivered by SeaMicro founder and CTO Gary Lauterbach at Stanford University. (video archive)
- Articles with short description
- 2007 establishments in California
- 2012 mergers and acquisitions
- 2015 disestablishments in California
- AMD
- Computer storage devices
- Supercomputers
- Servers (computing)
- Ultra-dense servers
- American companies established in 2007
- American companies disestablished in 2015
- Computer companies established in 2007
- Computer companies disestablished in 2015
- Defunct computer companies of the United States
- Defunct computer hardware companies