Fujitsu to sell fault-tolerant computers, challenging dominance of 2 U.S. firms

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Fujitsu Ltd begins competing with industry leaders Tandem Computers Inc and Stratus Computer Inc for a share of the Japanese fault-tolerant computer market. This market is smaller and expanding more slowly than the US market, which Tandem and Stratus also dominate. Tandem executives expect Fujitsu to aim at a somewhat different segment than Tandem addresses. They also believe that additional entries may increase competition but may also increase the size of the overall market. Japanese companies tend to focus on full backup systems, partly because of the huge discounts available. A hesitancy in adopting new technologies such as fault-tolerance also contributes to slow sales compared to the US. Hitachi Ltd and NEC Corp intend to join Fujitsu, Tandem and Stratus in manufacturing fail-safe mainframe systems for Japanese users, while DEC and HP want to enter the US fault-tolerant market.

Computers, Product development, Japan, Digital computers, Marketing, Market share, International trade, International competition (Economics), Fujitsu Ltd., Computer Industry, Japanese Competition, Market Entry, Fault Tolerance, Fault tolerant computer systems, Fault tolerance (Computers)

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Sun Microsystems moves to fill gap in computer line

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Sun Microsystems Inc announces a workstation called the SPARCstation 10. The new product, which is said to fill a gap at the high-end of Sun's microcomputer line, uses Texas Instruments Inc Supersparc technology in a way that chains as many as four chips together, creating a 'multiprocessing' configuration. Using one processor, the SPARCstation 10 runs twice as fast as the company's fastest high-end machine, and using four processors, the new machine can achieve a tenfold increase of speed. The SPARCstation 10 also includes support for multimedia applications. Sun Microsystems's new product will compete with computers offered by IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. Prices will start at $18,495.

Prepackaged software, Product introduction, Product Announcement, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Workstations (Computers), Multiprocessing, Workstations, Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 10 (SPARC-based system)

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