Posted on Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 3:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A NEC executive
told BusinessWeek that his company aims to double its share in the supercomputer market in the next four years with a new strategy to expand its sales in Europe:
NEC Corp. aims to double its share of the world’s supercomputer market in the next four years by increasing sales in Europe, a market where industry leaders International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. may be easier to challenge.
Japan’s largest personal computer maker will increase to 5 percent its share of the supercomputer market it forecasts will reach $14.6 billion by 2014, Fumihiko Hisamitsu, general manager of NEC’s high-performance computing division, said in an interview at the company’s Tokyo headquarters on July 5.
