KAWASAKI, Japan and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 31,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD)
today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding
(MOU) to form a strategic partnership to create computing platforms
for AI and high-performance computing (HPC). The partnership,
encompassing all aspects from technology development to
commercialization, will seek to facilitate the creation of open
source and energy efficient platforms comprised of advanced
processors with superior power performance and highly flexible
AI/HPC software and aims to accelerate open-source AI and/or HPC
initiatives.
Due to the rapid spread of AI, including generative AI, cloud
service providers and end-users are seeking optimized architectures
at various price points and power per performance configurations.
From end-to-end, AMD supports an open ecosystem, and strongly
believes in giving customers choice. Fujitsu has worked to develop
FUJITSU-MONAKA (1), a next-generation Arm-based processor that aims
to achieve both high performance and low power consumption. With
FUJITSU-MONAKA, together with AMD Instinct™ accelerators, customers
have an additional choice to achieve large-scale AI workload
processing to whilst attempting to reduce the data center total
cost of ownership.
This collaboration will focus on the three strategic areas of
engineering, ecosystems, and business, bringing together Fujitsu's
world-leading supercomputer-based advanced CPU technology with
industry-leading AMD GPU technology. Under this collaboration,
Fujitsu and AMD will target joint development of innovative
computing platforms for AI and HPC by 2027.
In addition, based on AMD ROCm™ software, an open-source AI/HPC
software stack for GPUs, and Fujitsu's Arm-based FUJITSU-MONAKA
software, Fujitsu and AMD will enhance their collaboration with the
open-source community. Both companies seek to advance the
development of open-source AI software that is optimized for the AI
computing platforms they will provide, and work to expand the
ecosystem.
Fujitsu and AMD will also collaborate on marketing and
co-creation with customers to offer these AI computing platforms
globally. In addition, to expand AI use cases and promote the
societal implementation of AI, based on the computing
infrastructure of FUJITSU-MONAKA and AMD Instinct accelerators,
both companies will collaborate to build an open and more
sustainable AI/HPC platform ecosystem, including a joint customer center.
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