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Article: Chen Sees His IBM Alliance as Sure-Win Setup
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- The Washington Post
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- December 26, 1987
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Christmas came a bit early this year for supercomputer designer
Steve Chen.
On Tuesday, the soft-spoken 43-year-old engineer, who dreams of
designing the world's fastest computer, announced that International
Business Machines Corp. had agreed to back his fledgling $100 million
venture. Chen calls it a sure-win combination that will produce a
supercomputer unlike any the world has known.
"We have great design capabilities," Chen said of Supercomputer
Systems Inc., his three-month-old company in Eau Claire, Wis. "And
IBM has the best technology-and a lot of money."
The partnership with IBM is the latest example of what Chen's
friends and former associates say is his single-minded ...