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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

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  1. rwmj · · focus · HN ↗
    It's Arm based, although they barely mention that.
    1. shrubble · · focus · HN ↗
      Interesting to note that Fujitsu did this when the SPARC architecture was popular: they enhanced/developed a CPU for the same ABI.

      Seems they have decided they don’t want to create their own architecture, but take the popular architecture and build on it.

      1. qmarchi · · focus · HN ↗
        Thanks kinda how Japan works. Inventing something new is hard, but taking something that's a cool idea and making it actually usable is well within their wheelhouse.

        See: - Blue LEDs - Quartz Watches - Lithium-ion Batteries - Bidets

        1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
          I had this idea that Fujitsu was one of those Japanese conglomerates that had operations in all kinds of markets, from electronics to heavy earth moving equipment to air conditioners to locomotives. But that doesn't appear to be the case so I'm wondering which company I'm confusing them with.

          Edit I think I was thinking of Mitsubishi.

          1. numpad0 · · focus · HN ↗
            Fujitsu was a telco equipment spinoff from Fuji Electric, so Fujitsu do/did make a lot of things that would be in a phone exchange building over its history, from air conditioners to terminals to actual mainframes. Just not as everything as Mitsubishi, which was a do-all procurement company for the new government when the Tokugawa stepped down.
            1. FlowingRiver · · focus · HN ↗
              About 25 years back here in Australia they were advertising Fujitsu air-conditioners, they had the promise of some like "They will get the air down to 17c in all conditions."

              About a month later there was a summer heat wave and I went to a friends house who had just bought one. It was wild walking in from a 45c day into, as advertised, a 17c house. Had to give it to them, they lived up to the claim.

              That they come from the telecom/server space, it makes sense they had a good eye for aircon engineering.

              1. anthk · · focus · HN ↗
                In Spain an aircon ad in TV joked by telling the viewer that "silence" in Japanese it's "Fujitsu".
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