[Info-vax] Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer in the world

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On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 12:14:49 AM UTC+12, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> DEC did let others make Alpha. At least Samsung and Mitsubishi had
> the kind of Alpha licences that let them design and make their own
> Alpha chips. Samsung used theirs to design chips and boards of
> their own, not just clones, which carried the AlphaPowered logo,
> before times changed and suddenly Alpha wasn't a promising place
> to be any more.

Why did that happen? Was Alpha too expensive? Did DEC’s lawsuit against Intel scare the customers away?