Cray of the U.S.A. has made peace with NEC. Cray will get NEC's supercomputer on OEM base to sell them at the brand name of Cray's supercomputer. With this Cray can protect its market in the U.S.A., while NEC can develop market in the U.S.A. which had been closed against it for long time. Cray was the pioneer of supercomputer. It holds overwhelming market share in world market in 1980s. Entering 1990s. When cold war ended, demands for supercomputers from U.S. military force decreased dramatically. Cray tried to develop its market, in Japan in particular. Under the pressure of the U.S. government, Japanese government bought many super computers manufactured in the U.S.A. However, such efforts could not support healthy management of Cray. At last Cray sold itself to SGI to become the Cray division of SGI had developed SCAPA parallel computer and expected to integrate SCARA super computer with Cray's Vector computer. However the attempt failed and Cray division of SGI could not develop internationally competitiveness in 1996, Cary hold a market share of 40% in the world market but it trooped to 10% in 1999, while NEC increased its market share to 40%, and Fujitsu also 40%.
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