Brad Rampelberg, Chief Sales Officer for Jabil's Intelligent Infrastructure segment, traces the OCP origin story from Facebook's Project Freedom (c. 2008) through to Jabil's current building-block strategy at the 2025 OCP Global Summit. He positions Jabil — a $29.8B manufacturer founded in 1966 with 140,000+ employees across 25+ countries — as a JDM/ODM hybrid that ships 750,000+ L10 servers and 25,000+ L11 racks annually. The session focuses on Jabil's MHS-aligned modular hardware catalog (HPM, rear chassis, front chassis layers) and solicits customer feedback on CPU architecture decisions (Intel, AMD, ARM) and edge inferencing workloads to shape the near-term building-block roadmap.

Key Takeaways

• Jabil ships 750,000+ L10 servers and 25,000+ L11 racks annually from its Intelligent Infrastructure segment, with $29.8B total company revenue (FY25) and 140,000+ employees across 25+ countries.
• Jabil differentiates from OEMs and ODMs by occupying a JDM middle ground: it accepts customer blueprints, co-designs, or white-box orders, and can stand up production near a customer's end users across 100+ worldwide sites.
• New domestic US manufacturing capacity is online in Salt Lake City and Richardson TX, with 422,000 sq ft (up to 80 MW) under construction in North Carolina — a direct response to tariff-driven reshoring demand.
• Jabil's OCP building-block catalog spans three MHS layers — HPM components (AMD SP5/SP8, Intel SP BHS/OKS, SP7, Ampere, BMC/DC-SCM), rear chassis (FLW, SDNO, ORv3 2-OU/1-OU), and front chassis (U.2, E3.S, GPU/AI, E1.S) — allowing workload-specific customization without full new-product development.
• Jabil sits on the OCP MHS design board and showcased four products at Summit 2025: the 'Bandera' server (with S-DNO building blocks), J422-G (GPU front end for AI inferencing), a CPO Switch (OCP's first open CPO switch design), and the J3220R-DFM 'Endurance' chassis (T22 GLC).
• Customer CPU architecture decisions — particularly the ARM journey (Ampere, NVIDIA Grace/Vera) vs. continued Intel/AMD investment — are actively shaping Jabil's building-block roadmap priorities, as the company solicited direct feedback during the session.