Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers
Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls
Fujitsu plans to start selling its custom "Monaka" Arm chip and servers using it in November. The company first announced Monaka in 2023, describing it as a derivative of the silicon used in the world's most powerful supercomputer, Fugaku. Monaka deviates significantly from Fugaku, utilizing Broadcom's 3D-chip stacking technology and the Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
The chip features four 2nm compute dies, each housing 36 cores, four 5nm SRAM chiplets, and a central I/O and memory die with 12 DDR5 and PCIe 6.0 channels. Fujitsu has offered three server models powered by Monaka: a 1U server, a 2U server, and a 2U server for multi-node deployments. These servers support air-cooled or liquid-cooled environments.
Fujitsu hasn't disclosed pricing but emphasizes the chip's potential for inferencing workloads, boasting the ability to handle double the inferencing output of rival CPUs. The hot air-cooled design of the servers also makes them more appealing for datacenters. Despite the Arm industry's focus on energy efficiency, Fujitsu is emphasizing the smaller server models as a sovereign solution, as they are manufactured in Japan.
Europe, which is increasingly interested in sovereign technology, will be the initial market for these servers.
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