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Japan Invests $750M in Zetta-Scale FugakuNEXT Supercomputer

8/23/2025

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Japan's RIKEN and Fujitsu launched the FugakuNEXT project, investing over $750 million to achieve zetta-scale performance by 2030.
The supercomputer will use FUJITSU-MONAKA CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs to improve AI, drug discovery, and disaster resilience.
FugakuNEXT follows the successful Fugaku supercomputer, which significantly contributed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Japan's RIKEN and Fujitsu launched the FugakuNEXT project, investing over $750 million to achieve zetta-scale performance by 2030.
The supercomputer will use FUJITSU-MONAKA CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs to improve AI, drug discovery, and disaster resilience.
FugakuNEXT follows the successful Fugaku supercomputer, which significantly contributed during the COVID-19 pandemic.