Japan – Fujitsu, an IT services and consulting firm, has recently announced its recent collaboration with computer hardware manufacturing firm Supermicro to develop and market a platform with Fujitsu’s future Arm-based “FUJITSU-MONAKA” processor.
The new platform will be designed for high performance and energy efficiency and is targeted for release in 2027. Two companies will also work with them on developing liquid-cooled systems for HPC, Gen AI, and next-generation green data centres.
Charles Liang, president and CEO at Supermicro, said, “Supermicro is excited to collaborate with Fujitsu to deliver state-of-the-art servers and solutions that are high performance, power efficient, and cost-optimised.”
“These systems will be optimised to support a broad range of workloads in AI, HPC, cloud, and edge environments. The two companies will focus on green IT designs with energy-saving architectures, such as liquid cooling rack scale PnP, to minimise technology’s environmental impact,” he added.
For this initiative, the two entities will merge their technical capabilities and global reach, thereby offering a market-leading server portfolio. Supermicro’s Building Block approach to server design allows a wide range of servers to be quickly built and certified for specific workloads across AI/HPC and general-purpose computing domains in deployments from cloud data centres to edge applications.
Furthermore, the integration of Fujitsu’s cutting-edge “FUJITSU-MONAKA” processor will also enable both companies to pursue high reliability, security, and ease of use with wide software compatibility, thereby empowering customers to employ green AI infrastructure.
According to the firm, FUJITSU-MONAKA is a processor based on the Arm instruction set architecture, employing cutting-edge 2-nanometre technology, and will be released in 2027.
The said technology applied to the FUJITSU-MONAKA is based on results obtained from a project subsidised by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO).
Additionally, the new partnership allows the expansion of Fsas Technologies Inc., a Fujitsu subsidiary, which will provide AI platform-based generative AI solutions globally that combine Supermicro’s GPU server products and implementation support services for data centre operators and enterprises.
Speaking about these initiatives, Vivek Mahajan, corporate vice president, CTO, and CPO at Fujitsu, also stated, “The collaboration between Fujitsu and Supermicro is a groundbreaking initiative that will accelerate green computing innovation.”
“By combining our technologies, we will enable high-performance, energy-efficient AI system infrastructure, driving the evolution of AI and Digital Transformation (DX),” Mahajan concluded.
The joint effort is also rooted in both companies’ dedication to promoting a green AI infrastructure that reduces power consumption and environmental impact in data centres.
