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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. whizzter · · focus · HN ↗
          I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff invented in Japan, but that's really beside the point.

          The industry is now mature enough that nobody really wants the headache of a new architecture at this point in time, Risc-V got a pass for being a grassroots movement growing out off FPGA's since the IP situation was more or less clear or even predatory with all existing architectures, Power, Sparc,SuperH,68k,etc are buried for good reasons.

          1. mghackerlady · · focus · HN ↗
            Powers not dead yet! IBM is still clinging to it and I can't blame them, it's a pretty good ISA
            1. FlowingRiver · · focus · HN ↗
              Yep, I have said it for a good 20 years now.

              POWER/PowerPC is what happens when you take a brilliant design to execute it poorly. x86 is when you take a poor design and execute is brilliantly.

              1. whizzter · · focus · HN ↗
                PPC could have any number of merits, the 2 nail in the coffin imho is that the community/implementations seems to have held on to a big-endian tradition whilst the mass of users/developers firmly shifted to little-endian when Apple went to x86 and that IBM didn't push it properly open in the 2005-2008 timeframe when PS3/Xbox360 were still relevant (OpenPower seems to have been created in 2013, after the creation of Risc-V and PS4/XboxOne going to x86).
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