{
  "id": 7982752,
  "title": "Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/fujitsu-ready-to-sell-its-custom-monaka-arm-chip-maybe-to-rival-7982752",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-17T06:20:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register",
    "slug": "the-register",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/17/fujitsu-ready-to-sell-its-custom-monaka-arm-chip-maybe-to-rival-server-makers/5297025"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls",
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  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "The Register Science",
        "title": "Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/fujitsu-ready-to-sell-its-custom-monaka-arm-chip-maybe-to-rival",
        "published": "2026-09-17T06:20:33.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}