According to reports from The Register, Fujitsu has won a new contract and will be responsible for designing Japan's next-generation supercomputers to replace the current "Fugaku" system. The new system is expected to re-emerge the Arm architecture processor and will use state-of-the-art 2nm process technology. The processor that is currently being developed by MONAKA-X general purpose chips will use HBM (high-frequency wide memory) rather than traditional SRAM.
This supercomputer, named "FugakuNEXT", covers the overall system, including computing nodes and processor design. The project is currently in the basic design stage and is expected to continue until early 2026. Vivek Mahajan, technician at Fujitsu, said the technology cultivated in this project will be further applied to the development of next-generation neural processors (NPUs) and other advanced AI chips. He emphasized: "We will bring Japanese-made technologies to the world and lead companies and society to accelerate the adoption of AI."
Although the details about FugakuNEXT are not fully published yet, this plan is still resounding. Looking back at 2020, the Fugaku system equipped with the Arm architecture A64FX processor, which once ranked first in the world's supercomputer rankings until it was surpassed by the United States' Frontier million-level (Exascale) computer in 2022. According to the rankings of 2023 and 2024, Fugaku still ranks fourth in the world.
If we refer to previously published information, the Japanese government may invest up to tens of thousands of billions of dollars in the research and development of this new system. From this we can see that Japan has always been ambitious in the field of super computers and tried to value the world's number one treasure. Currently, the MONAKA-X processor is expected to be completed in 2027, and the construction and full operation of the entire FugakuNEXT system may not be realized until 2030.
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