UK company AI Ltd, based in Watford, Hertfordshire seems to be going from strength to strength. This month it is opening a US subsidiary in Beaverton, Oregon – home to many parallel processing hardware manufacturers. In addition to Sun Microsystems and Intel Hypercube machines, AI’s parallel programming language, Strand88, now runs on Sequent Symmetry machines and will shortly be available on Transputer plug-in boards running on Atari’s Abaq Transputer Workstations under Helios, 80386 Unix workstations and Sony’s NEWS workstation. Other versions are planned to Encore, NCube, Meiko and BBN Butterfly systems. The company has also made a breakthrough in Japan, where Asahi Chemical Co has signed up for the language, and a Japanese distributor is soon to be announced.
