Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU

Fujitsu and server maker Supermicro are jointly working on a platform featuring Fujitsu's upcoming Arm-based high-performance MONAKA processor, as well as liquid cooling systems. The alliance is notable in two ways: Arm chips are known for running cooler than competitors and require less innovation where heat in concerned, and …

[Korev]

Always good to see that Fujitsu have stuff on the Horizon...

[JugheadJones]

Lol!, always something coming through the Post

[HuBo]

Nice!

That should provide interesting competition to datacenter-oriented ARM-CPU-systems from Ampere (to be bought by Oracle?), Nvidia (Grace), AWS (Graviton), Microsoft (Cobalt 100), Alibaba (Yitian), and Google (Axion).

If memory serves, Monaka chips were planned to have 150 Armv9 Cores of Neoverse N2 or N3 type, etched in 2nm (20Å), with DDR5 memory, PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.0, and a goal of 10 times the power performance of A64FX. I have to guess that this will be adapted to match, or best, competing offerings (at 2027 timeframe), like those of Ampere that targets 512 ARM cores per chip (Nvidia's Grace already has 144 Neoverse V2 cores per socket), and Intel that already has impressive MRDIMM tech in Granite Rapids (esp. relevant for HPCG, where Fugaku/A64FX is still #1 after 4.5 years).

Also, it's great that they are looking to pair Monakas with GPUs, for extra oomph where such parallel matrix-vector engines can provide it (shirley)!