Learn what makes supercomputers so powerful and essential in today’s tech landscape. ExtremeTech breaks down the science.

Cray developed the Cray-3, an incredibly fast gallium arsenide-based computer that ran at a 1 GHz clock rate. With the Cray-4 sitting in the wings, the company was unable to attract customers for ...

[Chris Fenton] spent a year and a half constructing a 1/10th scale Cray-1 reproduction ... We like that he didn’t stop with the processor implementation, but also took the time to produce ...

SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture ... Texas Instruments, Cray, Ross, and others. Sun was a significant part of SPARC International, but they did not go it alone.