The Japanese government is planning to award five companies 72.5 billion yen ($470 million) to fund the development of an AI supercomputer to reduce the country’s reliance on US technologies.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to build the world's fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country's manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop and improve ...

The Japanese government has accelerated plans to develop a next-generation supercomputer by the fiscal year 2030, succeeding the renowned Supercomputer Fugaku. This ambitious project, seeking to ...

Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) and SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBF) (OTC:SFTBY) announced a partnership on Tuesday to establish Japan’s most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputer, marking a significant ...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SC25—NVIDIA today announced that RIKEN, Japan’s leading national research institute, is integrating NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 systems with two new supercomputers ...

SoftBank Group Corp. will be the first to build a supercomputer with chips using Nvidia Corp.’s new Blackwell design, a demonstration of the Japanese company’s ambitions to catch up on AI. SoftBank’s ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC—NVIDIA (NVDA) today announced that Japan’s new ABCI-Q supercomputer — designed to advance the nation’s quantum computing initiative — will be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Supercomputer-driven models simulated in Japan suggested that operating commuter trains with windows open and limiting the number of passengers may help reduce the risk of ...

It aims to be 1,000 times more powerful than the AMD-powered Frontier exascale computer, currently the fastest supercomputer in the world. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Fujitsu has provided a new supercomputer to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) with a capacity of 31.1 petaflops. The new system, expected to be operational in March 2023, will be used to predict ...

With funding from IBM, universities in both countries will collaborate to develop a quantum supercomputer to spur further innovation in the field. IBM is slated to launch a new, decade-spanning ...