Supermicro says next year it will sell 1.75 times this year's revenue

Supermicro told the market it expects $65 billion to $72 billion in revenue next fiscal year. The number analysts had been working with was $52.5 billion.

Super Micro forecasts upbeat annual revenue (Reuters via Investing.com, 2026-08-11)

출처: investing.com

CoreWeave and Lumentum reported the same evening, and all three came in above what the market had penciled in. Serenity read the evening as proof that every layer of the AI buildout is running and that it has started to show up in earnings.

Where the three companies sit

These three are not rivals. They stand in a single line. Putting AI compute into a data center takes more than chips. Something has to hold the chips, something has to carry signals between the boxes as light, and someone has to rent the finished stack out by the hour.

The other numbers CoreWeave published

CoreWeave's second quarter revenue was $2.575 billion, more than double a year earlier. Its backlog, the contracted money it has not yet collected, stood at about $104 billion at the end of June. That is up from $99.4 billion in March, and more than $25 billion of fresh commitments were added in early July.

CoreWeave Q2 revenue reaches $2.58 billion as backlog grows to $104 billion (Blockspace, 2026-08-11)

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The same release carried a second set of numbers. Net loss for the quarter was $626 million, up 116% from $290 million a year earlier, and $6.422 billion went out the door for property and equipment in those three months. A backlog is money promised, not money received. Collecting it means building the data centers first, and the building is paid for now. Spending $6.4 billion while earning $2.6 billion in a single quarter leaves a gap that has to be filled with debt or equity.

What Supermicro's $68.5 billion leaves behind

The same kind of question sits on the Supermicro side. Assembling and selling servers is a business where revenue can grow without much of it staying. Serenity made the point himself, writing that 2027 margins were the most important thing to learn from the call. Even at $70 billion of revenue, a gross margin in the low teens leaves roughly $7 billion to $10 billion, and operating costs come out of that. So what this guidance proved splits two ways. Read as evidence that AI capital spending is real, the three sets of numbers are hard to argue with, because they come from orders already booked rather than forecasts. Read the other way, the larger the backlog and the order book grow, the larger the capital needed to turn them into physical machines. If Supermicro's annual revenue clears $65 billion when the year closes in August 2027, the number it called today held; below that, orders and revenue have drifted apart.