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HPE is buying Cray for $1.3B
- rbanffy 7y agoPlease, HP, don't destroy Cray.
- wahern 7y ago> Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research, says this is about consolidation at the high end of the market. “This is a smart acquisition for HPE. Cray has been losing money for some time but had a great portfolio of IP and patents that is key for the quantum era,” he told TechCrunch. Translation: American supercomputing innovation has reached it peak and will now shift to leaning on government-enforced monopolies. Consequence: China will inevitably become the leader in high-performance computing. And if the analyst's insinuation is correct that HPE/Cray has blocking patents and is prepared to use them, then China will also lead in quantum computing specifically.