HP Enterprise is to buy 47 year-old Seattle supercomputer manufacturer Cray for around $1.3 billion net of cash.

Benefits from the merger expected by HPE include:

• Future HPC-as-a-Service and AI / ML analytics through HPE GreenLake
• A comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of HPC infrastructure – compute, high-performance storage, system interconnects, software and services supplementing existing HPE capabilities to address the full spectrum of customers’ data-intensive needs
• Differentiated next-generation technology addressing data-intensive workloads
• Increased innovation and technological leadership from leveraging greater scale, combined talent and expanded technology capabilities
• Enhanced supply chain capabilities leveraging US-based manufacturing

News Source: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/hpe-buys-cray-2019-05/