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Manufactured by ASPEED Technology Inc., a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company, the AST2500 is a System-on-Chip (SoC) designed specifically for remote server management. It is the brain behind the "lights-out" management capabilities that allow system administrators to reboot a crashed server in Tokyo from a coffee shop in New York.

The AST2500 supports a range of software platforms, including: ast2500

Report Date: April 2026 Based on public ASPEED datasheets, Linux kernel drivers, and industry deployment data. Manufactured by ASPEED Technology Inc

At the heart of the AST2500 is an 32-bit RISC processor running at 800 MHz . Manufactured by ASPEED Technology Inc.

Through the KVM over IP function, administrators can remotely control the server's keyboard, video, and mouse as if they were physically present at the rack.