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Japanese CPU threatens to make Nvidia, Intel and AMD obsolete in HPC market

by fraqed on 5/31/20, 1:08 PM with 12 comments

• by m463 on 5/31/20, 7:01 PM

  The headline reminds me of 5th generation computers, which were supposed to supplant all current-generation computing of the time.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

• by ksec on 5/31/20, 3:40 PM

  I read the headline and I thought it is going to be Fujitsu A64FX. And it is, but the article completely lack any detail info.

  Anandtech [1] has a basic run down of features. The most important thing was SVE 512bit SIMD, which I believe was developed together with ARM. And as far as I am aware it seems to be the only commercial chip that has SVE.

  Unfortunately knowing the Japanese culture and Fujitsu's intention with A64FX I dont think it will bring any competition to Intel / AMD or Nvidia.

  [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15169/a-success-on-arm-for-hp...

• by jacques_chester on 5/31/20, 5:58 PM

  Also of interest, they'll be running a specialised kernel: https://github.com/RIKEN-SysSoft/mckernel