Editing Tera Computer Company (section)

{{Infobox company
| name           = Tera Computer Company
| logo           = 
| type           = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as      = {{NASDAQ was|TERA}}
| industry       = Manufacturing
| fate           = Renamed as [[Cray|Cray Inc.]]
| foundation     = {{start date and age|1987}}
| founders       = James Rottsolk<br>[[Burton Smith]]
| defunct        = {{end date and age|2000}}
| location       = [[Seattle, Washington]] 
| key_people     = 
| num_employees  = 
| products       = Computer software and hardware
}}

The '''Tera Computer Company''' was a manufacturer of [[high-performance computing]] [[computer software|software]] and [[computer hardware|hardware]], founded in 1987 in [[Washington, D.C.]], and moved 1988 to [[Seattle, Washington]], by James Rottsolk and [[Burton Smith]].<ref>[http://www.cray.com/About/History.aspx Cray Inc., History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712100729/http://www.cray.com/About/History.aspx |date=2014-07-12 }}</ref> The company's first supercomputer product, named [[Cray MTA|MTA]], featured interleaved [[Multithreading (computer architecture)|multi-threading]], i.e. a [[barrel processor]].  It also had no data cache, relying instead on switching between threads for latency tolerance, and used a deeply pipelined memory system to handle many simultaneous requests, with address randomization to avoid memory hot spots.<ref>{{cite web|year=1999|title=Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA|url=http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~carter/Papers/tera2.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222015429/http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~carter/Papers/tera2.html|archivedate=2012-02-22}}</ref>

The company was listed on [[NASDAQ]] under the ticker symbol "TERA".<ref>https://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR042798.html</ref>

In 1997, Tera Computer went to San Jose, California-based Cadence Design Systems Inc to develop microprocessors for their use in CMOS technology. Unisys manufactured Tera's gallium arsenide CPU.<ref>https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/tera_goes_to_cadence_for_help_with_cmos_supercomputer_chip_1/</ref>

Upon acquiring the Cray Research division of [[Silicon Graphics]] in 2000, the company was renamed to [[Cray|Cray Inc.]]<ref>{{cite news |year=2000 |title=Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name|url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-237517.html |work=cnet news}}</ref><ref>https://www.eetimes.com/tera-computer-buys-cray-from-sgi-readies-cmos-processors/</ref>

In 2019, Cray Inc. was acquired by [[Hewlett Packard Enterprise]] for $1.3 billion.<ref name="techcrunch-hp-buy-17may'25">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Ron |title=HPE is buying Cray for $1.3 billion |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/hpe-is-buying-cray-for-1-3-billion/ |publisher=[[TechCrunch]] |access-date=2025-04-06 |date=2019-05-17}}</ref>