For fun, I will sometimes buy trivial positions in solid companies whose stock price falls 8-10% or so due to some minor temporary bad press and then resell in a month or two when the news cycle forgets about them and price rebounds. I make a decent amount of play money this way.

SMCI has a pattern of missteps over the years, I would not qualify them as a solid future bet.

(And in case someone asks the question, no that is not a viable long-term strategy one's retirement savings because it's very much speculating and doesn't work AT ALL when the market is volatile or falling as a whole.)

You could be right. But reading the comments here it seems it's had 2-3 scandals in the last 4 years, which makes me suspect that more could be brought to light.