Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers

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Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers

The Register · 2 weeks ago

Fujitsu will begin selling its Monaka Arm processors, along with servers containing them, in November—earlier than the previously announced 2027 availability. The move could give cloud operators, AI companies and server manufacturers another source of computing capacity, particularly for inference workloads and sovereignty-focused data centres.

Monaka uses four 2nm compute dies with 36 cores each, four 5nm SRAM chiplets, and support for DDR5 and PCIe 6.0, delivering 144 cores in total. Fujitsu will offer three server designs, including air- and liquid-cooled systems aimed at cloud, high-performance computing and academic users, while claiming twice the inference output of rival CPUs; however, pricing is undisclosed and wider adoption by server makers remains uncertain.

  • Fujitsu will sell Monaka chips and servers from November.
  • The 144-core Arm processor targets inference and sovereign computing.
  • Adoption may be limited despite claimed performance and power advantages.

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