U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp. will join a project to develop a successor to Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, once the world's fastest, the Japanese government-backed research institute Riken announced.
According to a Kyodo News broadcast Fujitsu Ltd., Riken, and Nvidia hope "FugakuNEXT" will offer world-leading capabilities.
They plan to start operating it around 2030, with Nvidia responsible for the graphics processing unit or GPU to achieve fast computing for artificial intelligence.
"FugakuNEXT will not just be a computing tool, but will be the engine for the next wave of scientific breakthroughs," Nvidia Vice President of Hyperscale and High Performance Computing Ian Buck said at a press conference in Tokyo.
