Blocked from operating and expanding in China, leading American computing and software companies have shifted their focus to Japan, reinforcing a longstanding partnership that is accelerating the recovery of Japan’s technological competitiveness.
American tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft and Oracle have all recently announced new investments in data centers and related services in Japan. They have also invited Japan’s participation in AI and quantum computing development projects.
In March, the new ABCI-Q supercomputer built by Fujitsu at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced it will feature Nvidia’s CUDA-Q hybrid quantum-classical computing platform, equipped with more than 2,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated computing.
(ABCI is an acronym for AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure; CUDA for Compute Unified Device Architecture.)