For the YouTube founder, see Steve Chen (YouTube).

Steve Chen (, born about 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer.

Chen was a PhD graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987. Technology journalist John Markoff 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 1980's."

Chen is now the Founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China.

External links

• "Have Supercomputer, Will Travel" (2004 New York Times profile)
• "Scratch One Supergenius" (1987 mention in Time magazine)
• Galactic Computing (Chinese)

Chinese Americans | Computer pioneers | Computer designers | Living people | Taiwanese Americans | Naturalized citizens of the United States