TAINAN, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- COPLUS (2254.TW), a global leader in custom performance lighting holding over 1,000 patents, recently announced its strategic integration into the NVIDIA Developer Program. This milestone marks COPLUS's evolution from a hardware manufacturer into a high-growth AIoT Mobility Tech pioneer, strategically positioned to capture the rapidly expanding smart-vehicle infrastructure market.
Strategic Differentiation: Open Ecosystem vs. Industry Benchmarks
COPLUS is carving out a unique market position by championing an open-innovation R&D strategy, establishing a new industry standard:
- Beyond the "Closed-Loop" Proprietary Model: Unlike leading global EV pioneers that rely on strictly closed, vertically integrated autonomous stacks, COPLUS embraces NVIDIA DRIVE and Omniverse. This open architecture ensures COPLUS's high-end lighting is natively compatible with diverse global autonomous platforms, maximizing market reach and cross-platform versatility.
- A Distinct Path from Closed Manufacturing Models: While traditional Tier-1 lighting factories often pursue restrictive, isolated development through exclusive equity investments, COPLUS distinguishes itself as the first automotive lighting innovator in Asia to embrace an Open-Source Collaboration Model via the NVIDIA Developer Program. By sharing elite developer resources with the broader auto parts supply chain, COPLUS is "enlarging the pie"—inviting industry partners to co-create collective commercial opportunities and accelerate AIoT integration across the entire global mobility sector.
High-Margin Innovation: Empowering Hardware with an AI "Soul"
By embedding AI edge computing, COPLUS is transforming traditional components into "Intelligent Endpoints." This transition from commodity hardware to software-defined "AI Souls" significantly enhances the company's pricing power and margin profile.
- Market Opportunity: These features address the $20B+ automotive safety and HMI (Human-Machine Interface) market.
- Projected Growth: The global intelligent lighting market is forecast to reach USD 7.8 billion by 2031, while the autonomous sensor market is projected to hit USD 19.1 billion by 2030 (Source: Mordor Intelligence/MarketsandMarkets). COPLUS sits at the strategic intersection of these two high-growth sectors.
The Manlux Ecosystem: Unlocking V2X Revenue Streams
The Manlux AI concept vehicle serves as a commercial blueprint for future growth. By integrating Li-Fi optical communication (V2I) via NVIDIA DRIVE, Manlux provides a mission-critical redundancy layer for autonomous safety. This creates a unique technological moat, positioning COPLUS as a key infrastructure partner for global Smart City initiatives.
Leveraging the NVIDIA Developer Program, COPLUS products process real-time vehicular signals to enable:
- Dynamic Ground Projection: Maximizing situational awareness for both drivers and pedestrians.
- Intelligent Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB): Providing precision anti-glare protection to optimize road safety.
- High-Precision Navigation Guidance: Projecting high-resolution pathfinding cues directly onto the road surface.
Chairman's Vision: Driving Future Valuation
"Our integration with NVIDIA represents a fundamental shift in our business model," said Jacob Wu, Chairman of COPLUS. "We are moving beyond selling parts to providing the essential communication and safety infrastructure for the future. By choosing open-source collaboration, we are unlocking the unlimited commercial potential of the AIoT era."
Investor & Partnership Inquiries
COPLUS (2254.TW) invites institutional investors to explore our roadmap for AIoT mobility. We welcome strategic partners to collaborate on customized AIoT development projects and push the boundaries of automotive technology.
Official Website: www.coplus.com.tw
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COPLUS Accelerates AIoT Transition: Capturing High-Margin Mobility Markets via NVIDIA Ecosystem
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Fourth SF Bay Area location will add hundreds of U.S. positions, expand domestic production to boost U.S. technology and AI infrastructure capacity
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), an AI, Enterprise, Storage, 5G/Edge Total Solution Provider with optimized Data Center Building Block Solutions ® (DCBBS), today announced its largest US location with the advanced DCBBS campus and a significant expansion of its Silicon Valley operations with a new state-of-the-art business complex near its headquarters in San Jose, California.
The latest addition—spanning approximately 32.8 acres and more than 714,000 square feet—marks Supermicro's fourth Bay Area site and brings its regional footprint to nearly 4 million square feet. The facilities will support a full range of domestic operations, including advanced system design, manufacturing, testing, and service, as well as global distribution of the company's DCBBS for AI infrastructure.
"This new DCBBS campus, which becomes our largest in the U.S., is a direct investment in American innovation and manufacturing leadership," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By growing our Silicon Valley footprint and deepening our U.S. roots in San Jose where we are creating high-quality professional roles, we are able to advance domestic innovation, solution value, and production capacity. Our team will continue to drive the next wave of data center innovation, Time-to-Online (TTO) and build out efficiency, strengthening our ability to deliver new generation AI infrastructure at scale."
For more information, visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/about/us-manufacturing-expansion
The company is expected to create hundreds of new high-quality jobs across engineering, manufacturing, and business functions, reinforcing Supermicro's long-term commitment to local workforce development and U.S.-based production.
"Supermicro's expansion adds more advanced manufacturing, testing, and distribution capacity in San Jose, strengthening our position at the center of the global AI economy," said Mayor Matt Mahan. "This investment accelerates next-generation AI infrastructure, creates high-quality jobs and drives local economic growth—ensuring the innovation economy benefits all residents."
As global demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, Supermicro is scaling its domestic capabilities to meet the needs of enterprises and cloud providers deploying increasingly complex, compute-intensive workloads. The company's integrated approach—from system-level design to rack-scale systems—enables faster deployment, improved energy efficiency, and reduced total cost of ownership for next-generation data centers.
Supermicro is further aligning its Silicon Valley operations with the evolving requirements of AI infrastructure at scale—where rack-level integration, energy efficiency, and rapid deployment are critical. The new facilities enhance the company's ability to support hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customers building AI factories, while reinforcing its role as a U.S.-based manufacturing leader in high-performance computing infrastructure.
Supermicro DCBBS delivers complete, modular AI infrastructure. Built from validated components and sub-systems, DCBBS provides end-to-end deployment flexibility – from individual GPUs and networking switches to complete racks, site infrastructure, management software, and professional services.
For more information, visit www.supermicro.com.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Fourth SF Bay Area location will add hundreds of U.S. positions, expand domestic production to boost U.S. technology and AI infrastructure capacity
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), an AI, Enterprise, Storage, 5G/Edge Total Solution Provider with optimized Data Center Building Block Solutions ® (DCBBS), today announced its largest US location with the advanced DCBBS campus and a significant expansion of its Silicon Valley operations with a new state-of-the-art business complex near its headquarters in San Jose, California.
The latest addition—spanning approximately 32.8 acres and more than 714,000 square feet—marks Supermicro's fourth Bay Area site and brings its regional footprint to nearly 4 million square feet. The facilities will support a full range of domestic operations, including advanced system design, manufacturing, testing, and service, as well as global distribution of the company's DCBBS for AI infrastructure.
"This new DCBBS campus, which becomes our largest in the U.S., is a direct investment in American innovation and manufacturing leadership," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By growing our Silicon Valley footprint and deepening our U.S. roots in San Jose where we are creating high-quality professional roles, we are able to advance domestic innovation, solution value, and production capacity. Our team will continue to drive the next wave of data center innovation, Time-to-Online (TTO) and build out efficiency, strengthening our ability to deliver new generation AI infrastructure at scale."
For more information, visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/about/us-manufacturing-expansion
The company is expected to create hundreds of new high-quality jobs across engineering, manufacturing, and business functions, reinforcing Supermicro's long-term commitment to local workforce development and U.S.-based production.
"Supermicro's expansion adds more advanced manufacturing, testing, and distribution capacity in San Jose, strengthening our position at the center of the global AI economy," said Mayor Matt Mahan. "This investment accelerates next-generation AI infrastructure, creates high-quality jobs and drives local economic growth—ensuring the innovation economy benefits all residents."
As global demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, Supermicro is scaling its domestic capabilities to meet the needs of enterprises and cloud providers deploying increasingly complex, compute-intensive workloads. The company's integrated approach—from system-level design to rack-scale systems—enables faster deployment, improved energy efficiency, and reduced total cost of ownership for next-generation data centers.
Supermicro is further aligning its Silicon Valley operations with the evolving requirements of AI infrastructure at scale—where rack-level integration, energy efficiency, and rapid deployment are critical. The new facilities enhance the company's ability to support hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customers building AI factories, while reinforcing its role as a U.S.-based manufacturing leader in high-performance computing infrastructure.
Supermicro DCBBS delivers complete, modular AI infrastructure. Built from validated components and sub-systems, DCBBS provides end-to-end deployment flexibility – from individual GPUs and networking switches to complete racks, site infrastructure, management software, and professional services.
For more information, visit www.supermicro.com.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
** This press release is distributed by PR Newswire through automated distribution system, for which the client assumes full responsibility. **
Supermicro Adds Largest Silicon Valley Campus - New DCBBS Facility to Advance the Delivery of Next-Generation AI Data Centers
