Fujitsu and Supermicro announce strategic collaboration to develop green AI computing technology ...
Fujitsu Limited and
Supermicro, Inc. announced they will collaborate to establish a long-term
strategic engagement in technology and business, to develop and market a
platform with Fujitsu’s future Arm-based “FUJITSU-MONAKA” processor that is
designed for high-performance and energy efficiency and targeted for release in
2027. In addition, the two companies will also collaborate on developing
liquid-cooled systems for HPC, Gen AI, and next-generation green data centers.
"Supermicro is
excited to collaborate with Fujitsu to deliver state-of-the-art servers and
solutions that are high performance, power efficient, and cost-optimized,” said
Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “These systems will be
optimized 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 minimize
technology’s environmental impact.”
As the use of AI
continues to grow, demand for data center capacity is rising faster than what
can be supplied, and one of the biggest challenges is efficiently meeting
growing power consumption requirements. Liquid cooling technology innovation
has already made Supermicro an industry leader in shipping liquid cooling
solutions today. A key focus will be bringing together Fujitsu and Supermicro
expertise to further develop rack-scale liquid cooling solutions.
Fujitsu and
Supermicro will combine their technical capabilities and world-class global
reach to offer a market-leading server portfolio. Supermicro's Building Block
approach to server design enables 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 centers to edge applications.
In addition, by
integrating Fujitsu's cutting-edge "FUJITSU-MONAKA" processor, the
two companies will realize excellent performance and power efficiency while
also pursuing high reliability, security, and ease of use with wide software
compatibility, thereby empowering customers to implement green AI
infrastructure. FUJITSU-MONAKA is a processor based on the Arm instruction set
architecture, employing cutting-edge 2-nanometer technology and is set to be
delivered in 2027. This new technology applied to the FUJITSU-MONAKA is based
on results obtained from a project subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
The collaboration
will also extend to 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
center operators and enterprises.
"The
collaboration between Fujitsu and Supermicro is a groundbreaking initiative
that will accelerate green computing innovation,” said Vivek Mahajan, Corporate
Vice President, CTO, and CPO, Fujitsu. “By combining our technologies, we will
enable high-performance, energy-efficient AI system infrastructure, driving the
evolution of AI and Digital Transformation (DX).”
As a provider of
information and communication technology services and data center
infrastructure, Fujitsu and Supermicro believe that promoting a green AI
infrastructure that reduces power consumption and environmental impact in data
centers is a top priority.
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