Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 1985 (1985) |
| Founder | Mike Fung |
| Defunct | 1990 (1990) |
| Fate | Acquired by Cray |
| Products | Supertek S-1 |
Supertek Computers Inc. was a computer company founded in Santa Clara, California in 1985 by Mike Fung, an ex-Hewlett-Packard project manager, with the aim of designing and selling low-cost minisupercomputers compatible with those from Cray Research.1
Its first product was the Supertek S-1, a compact, air-cooled, CMOS clone of the Cray X-MP vector processor supercomputer running the CTSS (Cray Time Sharing System) operating system, and later a version of Unix. This was launched in 1989; although Supertek had raised US$21.4 million in venture capital, only $5 million of this was needed to develop the S-1.1 Only ten units were sold before Supertek was acquired by Cray Research in 1990.2 The S-1 was subsequently sold for a brief time by Cray as the Cray XMS.3
At the time of the acquisition the Supertek S-2, a clone of the Cray Y-MP, was under development. This was eventually launched as the Cray Y-MP EL in 1992.45
References
References
- Clark, Don (April 27, 1989). "Supertek's Minisupercomputer Clone". San Francisco Chronicle. Chronicle Publishing Company: C3. ProQuest 302355825.
- Fisher, Lawrence M. (March 30, 1990). "Cray in Deal To Acquire Supertek". The New York Times: D4.
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