Cray Computer Corporation

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Founders

Seymour Cray

Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father...

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  • 1989

Ceased Operations:

  • 1995
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