Kubota Computer, a 100% subsidiary of Kubota Steel Corp, is to begin local manufacture – in Yamanashi prefecture – of the top of-the-line M/120 processor from MIPS Computer Systems Inc in August: rated at 12 MIPS, the machine will be configured up to 328Mb of disk and initial output has been set at 50 machines per month; for the time being, Kubota will continue to use Marubeni Electronics as its main distributor of the MIPS machines, while Kubota itself will turn its sales attention to the Ardent Computer Titan hing-performance image processing computer, shipments of which will start at the end of July.
