Convex Computer

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Convex Computer Corporation

Company type	Private
Industry	Supercomputers
Founded	1982; 42 years ago (1982) in Richardson, Texas
Founder	Bob Paluck Steve Wallach
Defunct	1995 (1995)
Fate	Acquired by Hewlett-Packard

Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard (HP) PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995, HP bought the company. Exemplar machines were offered for sale by HP for some time, and Exemplar technology was used in HP's V-Class machines.