Seymour Cray was always taking a gigantic risk when he took his Cray-3 project out of Cray Research Inc and off down to Colorado Springs, Colorado as Cray Computer Corp, and the dreams have turned very sour. Cray Computer says it has scaled back development plans for the GaAs Cray-3 supercomputer after losing its lone […]
Seymour Cray was always taking a gigantic risk when he took his Cray-3 project out of Cray Research Inc and off down to Colorado Springs, Colorado as Cray Computer Corp, and the dreams have turned very sour. Cray Computer says it has scaled back development plans for the GaAs Cray-3 supercomputer after losing its lone customer, and has started searching for a business partner. Cray’s board of directors has approved a revised business plan under which work will continue on a prototype of the Cray-3 with testing planned for next month, but with no customer demonstration site, The market opportunities for 1992 do not appear sufficient to warrant the risk of increasing expenditure to build a 16-processor system for the second half of 1992 without a signed contract, the company said. It wants a partner to help with the sale of smaller Cray Computer products, marketing, manufacturing, software and financial capability.
