ASPEED Technology Inc.

ASPEED Technology Inc. is a Taiwanese fabless IC-design company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Hsinchu, listed on the Taipei Exchange under ticker 5274. It was established to design the baseboard management controller (BMC) chips that let data-center operators remotely monitor, control and repair servers without needing physical access to the hardware.

ASPEED’s main product lines are its remote server-management SoCs, including the AST2600 and newest 12nm AST2700 generation built around embedded ARM cores, plus PC/AV extension SoCs and Cupola360 image-processing SoCs. Chips are sold to server, motherboard and networking-equipment makers building products for cloud and enterprise data centers.

1. AST2600 BMC SoC: 7th-generation server-management chip with dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 for remote monitoring.

2. AST2700 BMC SoC: 8th-generation, 12nm chip with quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 and dual Cortex-M4 cores for higher compute density.

3. Remote KVM and sensor monitoring: enables virtual console access, BIOS/UEFI flashing and hardware-sensor tracking.

4. PC/AV extension SoCs: chips extending video and peripheral signals over network or USB links.

5. Cupola360 image-processing SoC: dedicated chip for panoramic and multi-camera image stitching.

6. Target market: server, motherboard and networking-equipment makers serving cloud and enterprise data centers.