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Maybe HP is just like Microsoft - terrible at naming things. How many names has TRIM had over the years?

HPE bought Cray, not HP

And this isnt really the original Cray. Its someone who bought Cray and started using their name (although they kept the original location open.) So there is precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Computer_Company

I haven't been working in supercomputing for 25 years any more and my first reaction to the headline was "Oh, Cray does still exist?". But obviously my intuition wasn't too wrong, the surprise should have more been "Oh, the Cray name does still exist", but that's of course not an equally big surprise.

And before Tera, SGI bought Cray in 1995.

CrayLink was awesome. I worked for a web hoster in the late 90s that was big on SGI and we'd abuse temporary CrayLinks between two Origin 200s to upgrade storage or spin off sites to a new server with minimal service impact.

HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.

Both come from the Compaq/HP chimera that absorbed DEC's name. The apple doesn't fall far from the other apple from the same tree.

Most of what HP got from DEC went into HPE. And the old HP offices in Cupertino are now Apple's new spaceship campus.

Those were dark days.

HP, Compaq and EDS.

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