While this was going on the Cray X-MP was being developed under the direction of Steve Chen at Cray headquarters, and looked like it would give the Cray-2 a serious run for its money.
Одновременно с разработками Cray-2 в Cray Research создавалась машина Cray X-MP, а на рынке суперкомпьютеров появились японские аналоги Cray-1 от компаний NEC, Fujitsu и Hitachi.