Supertek Computers

Supertek Computers Inc. was a computer company founded in Santa Clara, California in 1985 by Mike Fung, an ex-Hewlett-Packard project manager, with the aim of designing and selling low-cost minisupercomputers compatible with those from Cray Research.^[1]

Supertek Computers Inc.

Company type	Public
Industry	Computer
Founded	1985; 40 years ago (1985)
Founder	Mike Fung
Defunct	1990; 35 years ago (1990)
Fate	Acquired by Cray
Products	Supertek S-1

Its first product was the Supertek S-1, a compact, air-cooled, CMOS clone of the Cray X-MP vector processor supercomputer running the CTSS (Cray Time Sharing System) operating system, and later a version of Unix. This was launched in 1989; although Supertek had raised US$21.4 million in venture capital, only $5 million of this was needed to develop the S-1.^[1] Only ten units were sold before Supertek was acquired by Cray Research in 1990.^[2] The S-1 was subsequently sold for a brief time by Cray as the Cray XMS.^[3]

At the time of the acquisition the Supertek S-2, a clone of the Cray Y-MP, was under development. This was eventually launched as the Cray Y-MP EL in 1992.^[4][5]