>the architecture is not designed in Japan
replyThe text says "next-generation CPU, FUJITSU-MONAKA, designed and developed in Japan".
> I fail to see how they will take a significant market share or even break even on this venture.
replyDoesn't matter. You have to start somewhere and this is a good start.
It's a custom Fujitsu micro-architecture.
replyIt's ARM with extensions.
replyPrevious 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.
replySo there's a good chance that it's still an optimized half-SPARC inside.
Japan historically behaves as if they have nukes and need a totally sovereign HPC capability to support their stockpile.
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