In early October, Fujitsu and Supermicro announced a joint project to produce energy-efficient servers based on Monaka processors with ARM architecture.
Monaka is a processor from Fujitsu that is designed for AI systems. It is advertised that this processor will be twice as energy efficient as similar chips from competitors that are going to be released by 2027. Initially, Monaka processors were focused on air cooling, but cooperation with Supermicro led to a reduction in the size of the servers and their subsequent transition to liquid cooling.
The production of servers is planned to start in 2027 with the production of Monaka chips, which will have up to 144 cores, as well as 12 channels of DDR5 memory, and PCIe 6.0 interfaces with CXL 3.0. Supermicro and Fujitsu also plan to launch water-cooled server systems for HPC, generative AI, and sustainable data centers.
Monaka's combination of liquid cooling and energy efficiency will be able to meet the demand for computing power in data centers. Currently, due to the influence of AI and the specific power consumption of modern processors, data centers cannot fully meet the high-performance needs of businesses and organizations. Supermicro and Fujitsu hope that the use of ARM architecture in combination with liquid cooling can offer a better server solution than the current ones.
As part of the cooperation, Fujitsu and Supermicro will combine their experience and capabilities to create servers. The latter, in turn, will provide customers with customization options, allowing them to choose system components that are suitable for their specific workload.
