HPC News Bytes 20250825: Japan’s FugakuNEXT, Fujitsu’s Quantum Strategy, US Equity Stake in Intel, the NVIDIA H20 and Geopolitical Ping Pong

 

Good late August day to you! The whitewater world of HPC-AI continued to roil last week, here’s a fast (9:50) overview of recent industry developments, including:

– FugakuNEXT, Japan’s next Fujitsu-NVIDIA leadership supercomputer

– Fujitsu MONAKA Arm CPU

– Fujitsu’s 1000-qubit superconducting quantum computer

– CPU-GPU-QPU hybrid systems coming

– US government’s equity stake in Intel: “Arsenal of Democracy” or intervention?

– Softbank bets on Intel

– NVIDIA H20, China and geopolitical ping pong

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