The same thought crossed my mind. (-:
Although the disclosure statement on the original article at https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.rkrnyke4r says otherwise.
It's such a cyberpunk name, though. A quick search turned up that there was indeed a Japan-industrial #QuasarGroup from at least 1974 to 1983. Originally part of #Motorola it was sold to #Matsushita and in 1982 was selling a #MOS6502 hand-held computer that ran MS BASIC and a variant of #FORTH called snapFORTH.