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Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by Melatonic on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:17PM (#49459188)
Does anyone else make an ARM CPU that is expressly designed for performance with good cooling ?
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by wmf on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:49PM (#49459437)
It's not entirely clear what you're asking but... AGI, Vera, X2, Spark.
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by gt0 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:29AM (#49462008)
Fujitsu replaced their SPARC CPUs with ARM, I think they were pretty good, but last I read about them was a few years ago.
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by pezezin on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:21AM (#49474332)
Fujitsu is developing new ARM based CPUs called Monaka, but their focus seems to be HPC and AI, no mention of "normal" servers
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by avhception on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:42AM (#49475575)
A Fujitsu ARM Server for normal people that I can buy through a normal retail channel and boot a freakin' generic Linux ISO... that would be great!

(Yes, I'm aware of Ampere Altra. The space desperately needs competition and commoditization, imho.)

Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by pezezin on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:34AM (#49487766)
The funny thing is that Fujitsu has a sizable enterprise IT business, and their Primergy servers are very good, so why don't they offer their own ARM CPUs?
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by wmf on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:02AM (#49506140)
The previous A64fx was just for HPC. Monaka looks more general purpose so maybe they will sell Monaka servers.
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by pezezin on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:43AM (#49521199)
A man can dream...
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by rbanffy on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:30AM (#49463061)
Mainframes are exquisitely "balanced" machines that match processing capacity and IO for a relatively small set of workloads. You won't see mainframes doing scientific number crunching or AI training, but you'll increasingly see them adding more AI inference into their transaction processing workloads for things like fraud and anomaly detection. While their CPUs are prodigiously fast (the one announced is designed to run at 5.7 GHz, and the cores themselves are huge compared to other architectures), a lot of emphasis is placed on the IO systems that connect the machine to storage and other systems so that the CPU is busy all the time. It's very normal to run a mainframe at close to 100% CPU utilization.