Why Super Micro (SMCI) Shares Are Jumping Today?

Supermicro SMCI jumped about 3% on Tuesday after the company said it teamed with Intel (INTC) and Micron Technology (MU) to build a system that set new records on the STAC-M3 benchmark.

The STAC-M3 suite measures high-speed analytics on time-series market data used in real-time quantitative trading. It tests full stacks, compute, storage, networking and software, under multi-user, market-data workloads to gauge latency and throughput.

Supermicro's entry used its Petascale servers, Intel Xeon 6 processors, Micron 9550 NVMe SSDs and DDR5 memory, together with KX Software's kdb+ database. The partners said the platform delivered very low, predictable latency in audited STAC-M3 runs at the STAC Summit in New York City.

Micron's Americas data-center lead, Alvaro Toledo, said the configuration produced faster turn times on tick data and that low, consistent latency is critical when markets move quickly. He added the technical collaboration was aimed at helping firms convert streams of trades and quotes into actionable signals more rapidly.

Market participants said the demonstration may matter to trading firms that value microsecond performance, though real-world deployments and cost considerations will determine how widely the setup is adopted.