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- Hewlett Packard Enterprise is acquiring supercomputing company Cray in a $1.3 billion deal.
- Seattle-headquartered Cray has U.S.-based manufacturing operations and about 1,300 employees worldwide. It earned $456 million in revenue in its last fiscal year.
- The deal is expected to close by the first quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2020.
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray said on Friday it would be bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a deal valued at about $1.30 billion, net of cash.
The $35 per share value represents a premium of 17.4% to Cray’s last close.
The deal, expected to close by the first quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2020, will add to its adjusted operating profit in the first full year after closing.
Seattle-headquartered Cray has U.S.-based manufacturing operations and about 1,300 employees worldwide. It earned $456 million in revenue in its last fiscal year.
Cray’s supercomputing systems can handle massive data sets, converged modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, and analytics workloads.
(Reporting by Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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