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I fail to see how they will take a significant market share or even break even on this venture. It's an overcrowded market. Far better would be to focus on sem
by hermitShell 17d ago
I fail to see how they will take a significant market share or even break even on this venture.
It's an overcrowded market. Far better would be to focus on semiconductor supply chain, which Japan already supplies some elements, to sell to fabs.
Because the bottleneck is the fabs. If a new 2 nm fab came online today, it would immediately sell all its capacity to 2030 no problem, without Fujitsu trying this gambit.
It's not 'sovereign', the architecture is not designed in Japan, the silicon is not fabbed in Japan. This whole thing is sideways.
- Daishiman 17d ago> I fail to see how they will take a significant market share or even break even on this venture. Doesn't matter. You have to start somewhere and this is a good start.
- formerly_proven 17d agoJapan historically behaves as if they have nukes and need a totally sovereign HPC capability to support their stockpile.
- pertymcpert 17d agoIt's a custom Fujitsu micro-architecture.
- 0x457 16d agoIt's ARM with extensions.
- numpad0 16d agoPrevious generation of this was a monstrosity based on a custom SPARC with ARM front end grafted on top, supporting the version of SPARC extensions they created backported to ARM as a new extension. So there's a good chance that it's still an optimized half-SPARC inside.
- broken-kebab 17d ago>the architecture is not designed in Japan The text says "next-generation CPU, FUJITSU-MONAKA, designed and developed in Japan".
- hermitShell 17d agoIt's ARM.
- broken-kebab 16d ago[dead]