Fujitsu supercomputers to be sold again in U.S

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Fujitsu Ltd is coming back into the American supercomputer market with its VS-2000 vector processing supercomputers, ranging in price from $2 million to $17 million dollars. Supercomputers are used for design and manufacturing-process simulation to save companies time and money in developing products. Fujitsu is offering a 25 percent price-performance advantage to its customers. Fujitsu re-enters the American market on the heels of US and Japanese trade tensions, but Fujitsu emphasizes that some of the VP-2000's components are manufactured in Colorado and Oregon. Fujitsu enters into competition with Cray Research Inc, the world's largest supercomputer manufacturer, in the private sector market. Fujitsu is remaining in the vector processing market while Cray and IBM are entering into production of massively parallel systems. Fujitsu is now equipping its supercomputers with advanced UNIX software, something it failed to do in its last US market entry.

Supercomputers, Supercomputer, International competition (Economics), Fujitsu Ltd., Japanese Competition, Market Entry, Massive Parallelism, Vector Processors, Fujitsu VP2000 (Supercomputer)

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I.B.M. gears up for battle over mainframe disk drives; the question: Stretch current technology, or plunge into RAID?

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IBM's manufacture of mainframe disk drives is a profitable line of business that is threatened by the technological advances. More than 50 companies are developing redundant array of inexpensive disk (RAID) systems, which involve linking many inexpensive disk drives together. RAID assemblies can be store more data and do it more reliably than traditional mainframe drives and promise to cost less. IBM currently controls 78 percent of the mainframe drive market, which accounts for 40 percent of all drives and is estimated to be worth $5.16 billion. The high end of the market is still growing 27 to 30 percent a year, and analysts estimate that profit margins there exceed 60 percent; the low end is growing even faster. IBM must decide whether to stay with its large disks or introduce RAID products of its own, a step the computer giant might take by 1992.

Office machines, not elsewhere classified, Equipment and supplies, Technological forecasting, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Disk drives, Mainframe computers, Outlook, Strategic Planning, Mainframe Computer, Future of Computing

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