Quantum Computing Meets MONAKA: The Future of Data Is Already Here

The data center landscape is evolving rapidly. There’s more compute power, more data, and more AI. At the same time, European regulations are tightening, energy costs are rising, and businesses are under pressure to innovate – all while staying compliant and sustainable.

At Fsas Technologies, we’re not just adapting to these shifts – we’re shaping them. With technologies like the MONAKA processor and the world’s fastest quantum simulators, we’re delivering next-generation computing. These aren’t promises for the future – they’re real capabilities already available to our customers.

The Shift: New Demands, New Solutions

Across industries, traditional IT systems are reaching their limits. Businesses are navigating a complex mix of performance demands, strict data privacy laws, and increasing pressure to cut energy usage. At the same time, IT environments are becoming more fragmented – workloads are spread across edge, cloud and hybrid setups. AI needs both speed and scalability. And geopolitics is starting to shape digital strategies.

This creates a delicate balancing act: companies must innovate while maintaining control over their infrastructure, data, and energy footprint. Compliance, sustainability, and flexibility are no longer separate priorities – they must be built into the technology itself.

Key drivers of this shift include:

  • Growing compute power and data volumes
  • AI’s expanding role in business
  • More complex hardware and system architectures
  • New regulations that bring both challenges and opportunities

What’s clear: speed and storage alone aren’t enough. The future demands intelligent infrastructure, able to evolve as fast as the world around it.

Meet MONAKA: A Processor Built for the Future

That’s where MONAKA comes in. The processor is designed to go beyond the limits of conventional architectures. It provides a future-ready foundation – meeting today’s performance needs while helping companies respond to the bigger challenges data centers are facing.

MONAKA is based on ARM architecture and features a custom microarchitecture, combining a 3D many-core design with the technological legacy of Fugaku, the world’s former No. 1 supercomputer. It is a state-of-the-art processor that delivers scalable high performance, exceptional energy efficiency, and robust security – making it ideal for AI, edge computing, and high-demand data center workloads.

Its cloud-native design supports high memory bandwidths, ensuring smooth performance for demanding tasks. At the same time, it enables reliable operations through features like multiple VM confidential computing and mainframe-class RAS.

MONAKA’s leading-edge process technology makes it extremely energy efficient and allows ultra-low voltage operation. The processor also supports direct liquid cooling, covering 80 % of cooling requirements, with the remaining 20 % provided by air cooling. The result: lower energy consumption, improved power usage effectiveness (PUE), and support for dense, high-performance configurations, including CPUs and GPUs with high thermal design power.

Bottom line: MONAKA delivers measurable results – not just in performance, but in performance per watt. Compared to alternatives projected for 2027, it offers 2x better performance per watt.

Comparison: MONAKA vs. CompetitorsWhat’s Next for You

With MONAKA and quantum computing, Fsas Technologies is shaping the next decade of IT. In 2023, we built the world’s fastest 36-qubit quantum simulator, using A64FX processors that were originally designed for Fugaku. This was not just a technological achievement – it marked the beginning of a new phase.

We’ve moved quickly since then:

  • A 39-qubit simulator launched in September 2024
  • A 256-qubit quantum computer followed in early 2025
  • A 1,000-qubit machine is scheduled for fiscal year 2026

By combining MONAKA with quantum innovation, we are creating a powerful platform that supports today’s needs – and unlocks tomorrow’s opportunities. Whether you’re optimizing your infrastructure for AI, looking to reduce energy consumption, or exploring quantum-based solutions: we’re ready to help you move forward.

The future is already here. Let’s build it together. Talk to our experts about your hybrid future.

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  • Glenn Fitzgerald

    Glenn is Chief Technology Officer at Fsas Technologies Europe. He joined ICL in 1979 as an apprentice and has worked for the company, now Fsas, throughout a varied career, during which he has gained expertise in a wide range of IT fields, including manufacturing and production test, hardware, software and firmware design, infrastructure implementation, project management and business and ITC architecture. In his role, Glenn is responsible for the development of the technical aspects of solution offerings within the Fsas Business, ensuring that the technologies utilized within that strategy have the necessary capacities to resolve customer business issues. He is also developing the solution consulting capability within Fsas to assure the delivery of industry leading solutions that support clients’ varied businesses with the “art of the possible” at any point in time; a balance of technical feasibility, cost, timescales, risk and flexibility.

    Glenn is honored to hold the appointment of Fujitsu Engineering Fellow and in that role is particularly active in reaching out to the academic and educational sectors. He promotes new programs to support emerging areas of research, most recently in new compute mechanisms and artificial intelligence. He is an advocate of the promotion of STEM disciplines in UK education and supports curriculum delivery in several establishments. Glenn is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and participates actively in its work. He has authored several reports, most recently on topics including artificial intelligence, the internet of things, hybrid cloud computing and datacenter management and consolidation.

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