---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001375365-24-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMCI"
cik: "0001375365"
company_name: "Super Micro Computer, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T08:08:20.631371+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Super Micro's auditor Ernst & Young resigns over governance and transparency concerns

## Summary
- EY resigned on Oct 24, 2024, citing inability to rely on management and Audit Committee representations; company disagrees.
- Special Committee review ongoing, engaged Cooley and Secretariat; no restatements expected for FY2024 or prior.
- EY had concerns about governance, internal controls, and timeliness of annual report communicated in July 2024.
- Company has begun search for successor independent auditor; EY had not yet issued any audit report.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001375365-24-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMCI
- cik: 0001375365
- company_name: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1375365/000137536524000036/0001375365-24-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1375365/000137536524000036/smci-20241024.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001375365-24-000036
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001375365-24-000036.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001375365-24-000036.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Ernst & Young LLP resigned as auditor of Super Micro Computer, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  source text: On October 24, 2024, Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) sent the members of the Audit Committee a letter of resignation as the Company’s registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1375365/000137536524000036/0001375365-24-000036-index.htm

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