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Supermicro Empowers AI-driven Capabilities for Enterprise, Retail, and Edge Server Solutions

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Retailers Can Leverage AI to Increase Revenue and Reduce Costs with Supermicro and NVIDIA’s Collaboration

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — National Retail Federation (NRF) — Supermicro, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is showcasing the latest solutions for the retail industry in collaboration with NVIDIA at the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual show. As generative AI (GenAI) grows in capability and becomes more easily accessible, retailers are leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, for a broad spectrum of applications.

“Supermicro’s innovative server, storage, and edge computing solutions improve retail operations, store security, and operational efficiency,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “At NRF, Supermicro is excited to introduce retailers to AI’s transformative potential and to revolutionize the customer’s experience. Our systems here will help resolve day-to-day concerns and elevate the overall buying experience.”

To learn more about Supermicro’s AI solutions for retail organizations, visit www.supermicro.com/RetailAI

Innovation in front-of-house and back-of-house use cases – such as personalized shopping experiences, automating logistical processes, and preventing shrinkage – enable retailers to attract customers to their establishments and improve their profitability.

Supermicro at NRF

Retail AI solutions like the ones mentioned above require specialized hardware to deliver optimal results. Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of edge AI solutions, giving retail organizations the tools to optimize the ROI of their AI-based applications. By processing data directly where the customers are located, results are delivered with minimal latency, creating an exceptional user experience. At NRF, Supermicro is showing the latest systems designed to deliver high-end performance to retail locations:

SYS-112B-FWT: This 1U, short-depth system offers powerful edge compute, utilizing the latest Intel Xeon processors. Despite being less than 17″ in depth, it can hold NVIDIA L40S GPUs.AS -1115S-FWTRT: Leveraging AMD’s EPYC series processors, this 1U, short-depth system offers customers flexibility in both core counts and GPU capability by having the capacity to hold a single double-width NVIDIA L40S GPU.SYS-E403-14B: A compact server capable of delivering data center performance at remote and space-constrained locations. This compact system can accommodate 2 single-width or 1 double-width GPU cards, including the NVIDIA L40S or NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPU, in remote edge locations.SYS-212B-FN2T: The 2U, short-depth edge AI system offers more features and capacity compared to the competition and supports multiple data streams or workloads. Optimized for inferencing at the edge, the SYS-212B-FN2T supports up to 2 double-width GPU or single-width GPUs, such as the NVIDIA L4 GPU.SYS-222HE-TN: A 2U powerhouse, this dual-processor system features the latest Intel Xeon processors bringing data center power into a shorter-depth platform. With the ability to hold up to 3 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, it brings serious inferencing power to the customer.AS -2115HE-FTNR: A uniprocessor, 2U system based on the latest AMD EPYC family. This system offers a maximum dual-width GPU density of 4 cards such as NVIDIA L40S GPUs.SYS-322GA-NR: For the most demanding workloads, this powerful and versatile 3U edge AI platform offers 10 PCIe 5.0 x16 slots or 20 PCIe 5.0 x8 slots (in physical x16 slots). These slots can be fitted with up to 8 double-width GPU cards, such as NVIDIA’s H100 GPU leveraging NVIDIA NVLink. Alternatively, the system can be configured with 19 single-width GPU cards, such as NVIDIA’s low-profile or single-width product families, or combined with different add-on cards, such as graphics controllers, making this system ideal for environments including large control rooms.

An AI use case on display at the Supermicro booth is a customer service application built with the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for digital humans. It features James, a computer interface that mimics the experience of interacting with a real person. Digital humans are virtual avatars that look, act, and think like a human would. In retail, this technology can be deployed to provide customers with a personalized shopping experience, a shopping assistant, and a customer service representative all in one solution.

A second live demo is the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for retail shopping assistants, a generative AI reference workflow designed to transform shopping experiences online and in stores. The blueprint provides the technologies for building shopping assistants that can search for multiple items simultaneously, answer contextual questions like whether a product is waterproof, and visualize furniture in physically accurate scenes, such as a customer’s living room.

A third use case being demonstrated harnesses the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization to combat the growing issue of shrinkage. Shrinkage occurs when products leave a store and are not paid for. Loss due to shrinkage costs retailers an estimated $100+B annually in the US alone. By using AI-based solutions, retailers can interpret camera input in real time and identify mix-ups at the checkout as they occur, providing direct feedback to the retail store and the customer.

NRF visitors can find Supermicro at booth #3165. At the NRF 2025 Expo, January 12-14 in New York City, Supermicro and NVIDIA are collaborating to introduce retailers to AI’s transformative potential. For more information, visit https://nrfbigshow2025.smallworldlabs.com/co/super-micro-computer-inc

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, Taiwan, 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. 

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SuperIT AI Agents Launch in North America With Free Tier To Fix IT Incidents Without Runbooks

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Australian startup brings its self-service platform to North American MSPs ahead of IT Nation Connect. MSPs can have an AI agent working on real tickets within an hour of sign-up, with paid plans starting at US$99 a month.

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SuperIT, an Australian AI startup whose AI agents investigate and fix end-user IT issues directly on managed devices, today launched its platform for North American managed service providers (MSPs) and IT teams on a self-service basis, as part of global availability. A new free tier with no expiry includes unlimited AI ticket triage and monthly credits for other AI features, and paid plans start at US$99 a month. MSPs and IT teams can sign up at https://superit.ai, connect their ticketing system and have an AI agent working real tickets within the first hour, with no sales call or contract.

“SuperIT investigates problems it hasn’t seen before and fixes them on the device, within limits each MSP sets.” (Sale)

The launch, ahead of IT Nation Connect in Orlando (Nov. 4–6), moves SuperIT from early access with MSPs in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. to general availability worldwide, with North America the company’s focus market.

“This is a new era for IT and MSP software, where products win on technical merit, not contract lock-in. The days of signing a one- to three-year contract just to try a product are over,” said Christopher Sale, CEO and co-founder of SuperIT. “We believe SuperIT is the best AI agent in its class, so we’re making it free to use with no time limit and letting MSPs judge it on their own tickets. Most AI in IT support stops at triage or a pre-written script. SuperIT investigates problems it hasn’t seen before and fixes them on the device, within limits each MSP sets.”

Fixing, not just triage and suggestions

Many AI tools for MSPs classify and assign tickets, suggest knowledge articles or run predefined scripts. SuperIT does those things, and is built to go further: to diagnose and resolve unfamiliar issues without a pre-written workflow. Two proprietary technologies make that possible:

– Digital Twin. An evolving model of each customer’s IT environment, built from managed-device telemetry and third-party integrations. Each new issue is investigated with that context rather than from scratch.

– SuperIT Endpoint Agent. Runs on managed devices to gather diagnostics, analyze configuration and system behavior, run commands through controlled PowerShell execution, apply fixes and verify the issue is resolved.

Each MSP decides how independently SuperIT works. Within those limits it resolves issues on its own. Outside them, it works with an engineer to plan, approve and carry out the fix. Early customers use SuperIT for triage and first response, routine service desk workflows, technical investigation, and unfamiliar L1–L3 incidents. SuperIT helps with recurring tasks like new user onboarding and offboarding, all the way to the most complex once-off server performance troubleshooting or network incidents, and everything in between.

Early results

In early evaluations across the technician conversations reviewed with SuperIT’s early MSP partners, the technician’s goal was fully or partly achieved in 91.1%, and 74.1% were assessed as clearly useful or decisive, such as finding key information, running diagnostics or performing the fix. Fields written by SuperIT’s AI triage were still unchanged at review in 99% of cases for ticket type, 96% for subtype, 93% for priority and 91% for item.

Usage grew quickly ahead of the launch. Between July and September 2026, the number of customers MSPs have deployed SuperIT to grew 71%, tickets synced more than doubled, and monthly autonomous agent runs more than doubled, including a nearly tenfold increase in ticket investigations. Monthly recurring revenue grew more than sixfold from August to September.

“We’ve tested many ticket remediation solutions, and only SuperIT passed our accuracy tests. It’s also very easy to use,” said Sam Gridley, CEO of Hawaii-based MSP Intech Hawaii.

Availability and pricing

SuperIT’s free tier has no trial expiry. It includes unlimited AI ticket triage, with fair-use limits, and monthly credits (enough for light AI usage), with access to all platform features. Paid plans run from US$99 to US$9,900 a month, month to month contracts, with more credits on larger plans. Tiers are available for IT teams of all sizes, including custom plans for larger MSPs and IT departments with enterprise requirements. Guided onboarding and assisted proofs of concept remain available.

“MSPs shouldn’t have to sit through sales demos, sign long contracts or commit to big minimums just to find out whether an AI tool like SuperIT works in their environment,” said Sale. “Start free, prove it on real tickets and scale when you’re ready.”

Integrations and security

SuperIT integrates natively with ConnectWise PSA, Autotask, HaloPSA and Accelo, with more to come. Its workflow actions feature lets MSPs connect any platform with a public API as a tool the AI agent can use. Every command passes a security pipeline and a three-tier policy (allowed, needs approval, blocked) and runs as the signed-in user, never with system-level rights. Every action is recorded in an append-only audit trail, and MSPs can require engineer approval for any command or category of action.

Growing without hiring at the same rate

MSP growth has traditionally meant hiring more engineers as client numbers rise. SuperIT is designed to break that link, so MSPs can support more clients with their existing teams, cut engineering time per ticket and improve gross margins.

SuperIT also expects the platform to let MSPs offer new AI-first managed services, priced lower because AI agents do much of the technical work and engineers step in when needed. That makes smaller, price-sensitive businesses profitable to serve, an opportunity that also suits office technology dealers building managed IT practices without large engineering teams.

North America

The expansion follows demand from North American MSPs that saw SuperIT’s early results. North American customers will initially be supported by SuperIT’s existing team and global platform, and the company plans to open a dedicated U.S. team in the first quarter of 2027.

SuperIT raised a US$1.7 million (AU$2.5 million) pre-seed round in December 2025 from Hustle Fund, Antler, CoVentures, Top Down Ventures, angel investors, and MSP owners and industry experts.

IT Nation Connect attendees can see SuperIT in the Solutions Hall, Nov. 4–6. MSPs can sign up free at https://superit.ai

About SuperIT

SuperIT builds AI agents that investigate, troubleshoot and resolve end-user IT incidents and service requests, so MSPs and internal IT teams can scale support without adding headcount at the same rate. Its platform combines a Digital Twin of each customer’s IT environment with an endpoint agent that acts directly on managed devices, within limits each MSP sets. Founded in 2025 in Adelaide, Australia, and now operating globally, SuperIT is backed by Top Down Ventures, Hustle Fund, Antler and CoVentures. Learn more and sign up free at https://superit.ai

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Christopher Sale, SuperIT, 1 650 466 9762, press@superit.ai, www.superit.ai

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New TELUS collective agreement ratified by the United Steelworkers membership

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Agreement reached ahead of current contract’s expiry provides stability for more than 3,000 team members across Canada

VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 2, 2026 /CNW/ — TELUS today announced that team members represented by the Telecommunications Workers Union, United Steelworkers Local 1944 (USW) bargaining unit have ratified the new agreement reached by the parties earlier this month. This new agreement, which has a term of April 1, 2027 to December 31, 2031, will apply to more than 3,000 TELUS team members nationally.

“Thank you to our team members for supporting this agreement and to both bargaining teams for their constructive work,” said Victor Dodig, President and CEO of TELUS. “Reaching an agreement well ahead of the current contract’s expiry provides stability for our team members and our business, allowing us to focus together on delivering the reliable service and outstanding experiences our customers count on.”

About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a leading Canadian communications technology company operating in more than 45 countries and generating over $20 billion in annual revenue with more than 17 million customer connections through our advanced suite of broadband services for consumers, businesses and the public sector. TELUS is passionate about putting our customers and communities first, leading the way globally in client service excellence and social capitalism. The TELUS PureFibre and 5G networks connect Canadians at home, at work and in the communities where they live.

TELUS Health is enhancing approximately 159 million lives across 200 countries and territories through innovative preventive medicine and well-being technologies. TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods utilizes digital technologies and data insights to optimize the connection between producers and consumers. TELUS Digital specializes in digital customer experiences and future-focused digital transformations that deliver value for their global clients.

Since 2000, TELUS and our team members have contributed more than $1.85 billion in cash, in-kind contributions, time and programs to communities across Canada and around the world.

For more information, visit telus.com.

For more information, please contact:
Chelsey Higdon
TELUS Public Relations
chelsey.higdon@telus.com 

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USI Unveils Wi-Fi 8 SiP Module for Enhanced AI Device Connectivity

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SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — USI today announced its Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) roadmap, with product launch planned for the first quarter of 2027. Building on its Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 with System-in-Package (SiP) technology, USI is positioning itself to help customers capture the next wave of wireless innovation.

Wi-Fi 8 shifts focus from peak data rates to Ultra-High Reliability (UHR), efficiency, and consistent user experience. This matters as devices shrink, from smartphones and AI laptops to smart glasses, smart rings, and TWS earbuds, and must maintain stable connections despite limited antenna space, constrained battery capacity, and complex RF environments.

Key Wi-Fi 8 technologies include:

Multi-AP Coordination: Coordinated Beamforming (Co-BF) and Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR)Dynamic Spectrum Optimization: Dynamic Sub-channel Operation (DSO)PHY enhancements: Distributed Resource Unit (DRU), Enhanced Long Range (ELR), and Unequal Modulation (UEQM)

Together, these advances enable smarter, more coordinated wireless networks and extend advanced connectivity to wearables and next-generation robotics.

Shrinking form factors bring tighter space, battery, thermal, and power demands. USI draws on deep expertise in SiP design, RF engineering, wireless module integration, advanced packaging, and high-volume manufacturing to help customers reduce product size, optimize power consumption, and simplify system design. Its Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 SiP miniaturization, combined with advanced RF and shielding technologies, provides a strong base for the Wi-Fi 8 transition.

Wi-Fi 8 is also expected to drive deeper system-level integration across wireless ICs, RF front-end components, antennas, power management, and advanced packaging, so that wireless performance and miniaturization evolve together in wearable, mobile, and IoT products.

“Wi-Fi 8 is about more than faster speeds. It is about enabling devices to maintain reliable, consistent, and predictable connections in complex wireless environments. USI will combine its capabilities in wireless connectivity, RF design, SiP integration, and advanced process technology to help customers overcome the challenges of product miniaturization and rising system complexity, accelerating the time to market for next-generation smart devices.” said Jessica Yu, Associate Vice President of Wireless & Wearable Miniaturization Solutions at USI.

Wi-Fi 6 and 6E improved network efficiency and expanded available spectrum, and Wi-Fi 7 significantly raised throughput, bandwidth, and responsiveness. Wi-Fi 8 goes further, delivering greater reliability, predictability, and efficiency in increasingly complex wireless environments.

About USI (601231.SH)

USI, Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., is a global leader in electronic design and manufacturing as well as a leader in the field of SiP (System-in-Package) technology. Our production and service locations span four continents: Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, offering customer diversified electronic products with D(MS)2 services: Design, Manufacturing, Miniaturization, Industrial software, and hardware Solutions, as well as material procurement, logistics and maintenance Services. USI is a subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 3711, NYSE: ASX). To learn more, please visit www.usiglobal.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

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