Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds

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2023-03-16 02:30:12

The kicker is a successor that implements an architecture and design and that includes microarchitecture enhancements to boost core performance (core in the dual meanings of that word when it comes to CPUs) as well as taking advantage of chip manufacturing processes (and now packaging) to scale the performance further in a socket.

The fork is a divergence of some sort, literally a fork in the road that makes all the difference as Robert Frost might say. There can be compatibility – such as the differences between big and little cores in the Arm, Power, and now X86 markets. Intel and AMD are going to be implementing big-little core strategies in their server CPU lines this year, AMD in its “Bergamo” Epycs and Intel in its “Sierra Forest” Xeon SPs. Intel has had X86 compatible Atom and Xeon chips and now E and P cores for a decade and a half, so this is not precisely new to the world’s largest CPU maker.

And this kind of fork is what we think Japanese CPU and system maker Fujitsu will be doing with its future “Monaka” and “Fugaku-Next” processors, the former of which was revealed recently and the latter of which went onto the whiteboards with stinky markers – well, it was the beginning of a feasibility study by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, with Education, Culture, Sports, Science being a variable X and thus making up the abbreviation MEXT – back in August 2022.