Steve Chen (computer engineer)

Steve S. Chen
Born	1944 (age 72–73) Taiwan
Other names	Chinese: 陳世卿
Nationality	Taiwanese
Fields	Computer science Electrical engineering
Institutions	Cray Research
Alma mater	National Taiwan University Villanova University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known for	Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP

Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳世卿; pinyin: Chén Shìqīng) (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese computer engineer and internet entrepreneur.

Chen earned a BS from National Taiwan University in1966. MS from Villanova University in 1971 and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975. From 1975 through 1978 he worked for Burroughs Corporation on the design of the Burroughs large systems line of supercomputers. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in September 1987 after it dropped the MP line. With IBM's financial support, Chen founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated (SSI) in January 1988. SSI was devoted to development of the SS-1 supercomputer, which was nearly completed before the estimated $150 million investment ran out. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based company went bankrupt in early 1993, leaving more than 300 employees jobless. An attempt to salvage the work was made by forming a new company, SuperComputer International (SCI), later that year. SCI was renamed Chen Systems in 1995. It was acquired by Sequent Computer Systems the following year. John Markoff, a technology journalist, wrote in the New York Times that Chen was "considered one of the nation's most brilliant supercomputer designers while working in this country for the technology pioneer Seymour Cray in the 1980s."

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