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

[David Froble]

lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

Volume, pure and simple.