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  • Where are the CPUs fabbed? They make a big deal about "sovereign" but is the CPU actually made in Japan, or do they rely on TSMC?

    Also odd how big an emphasis they put on AI inference when they don't build the GPU?

    by Youden
  • Named after monaka, a traditional Japanese confection of sweet red bean paste sandwiched between two wafers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaka

    It's not terribly popular even in Japan, since it's dry, bland, fragile and has to be assembled on the spot or it goes soggy.

    by motionlessveloc
  • It's Arm based, although they barely mention that.
    by rwmj
  • The US administration created at least 90% of what we now call technology sovereignty concerns. Technology sovereignty is front and center in this announcement. Before the president started making wildly inappropriate remarks about grabbing territory from allies and other previously unthinkable utterances, almost everyone was happy to buy technology from US hardware and software vendors. Complacency about the state of democracy and rule of law in the US was the norm.

    Why does this matter? Markets outside the US account for about half of many US technology vendors' revenue. Who is going to speak up first?

    by Zigurd
  • Fun fact, Fujitsu used to run their own fabs in Japan until they were sold to UMC and now they're another UMC fab although they are stuck at like the 20nm node. So this is likely made at JASM.
    by alightsoul
  • If anyone is curious and want to skip all the PR talk:

    >Combined with SVE2 vector operations and software optimization,

    It’s ARMv9.

    by irusensei
  • More detailed presentations about the Monaka CPU:

    wccftech summary: https://wccftech.com/fujitsus-monaka-chip-3d-stacks-2nm-cpu-...

    2026: https://global.fujitsu/-/media/Project/Fujitsu/Fujitsu-HQ/te...

    2023: https://global.fujitsu/-/media/Project/Fujitsu/Fujitsu-HQ/te...

    FugakuNEXT, the supercomputer it will be used in, also some details about the next-gen Monaka-X: https://global.fujitsu/-/media/Project/Fujitsu/Fujitsu-HQ/te...

    For a single CPU: 844 GB/s memory bandwidth (12 channels of DDR5 RDIMM, 8800MT/s). 4.3-6 TFLOPS.

    Basically comparable to a modern (although not top-end) GPU, so good for HPC & AI workloads. (though only 2 CPUs per node, with GPUs 4-8 is more common)

    by jaen
  • Back in 2008 Fujitsu has one of the best performing 10Gbps Switches. We were building 40 Gbps packet sniffers at Google (4x 10 Gbps NICs) and needed switches that could do things like mirror traffic across ports at line rate. Fujitsu was way ahead of the pack. I always wondered what held them back from building a meaningful networking business in the US.
    by a11r

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