RIKEN, Fujitsu, and NVIDIA are collaborating to develop FugakuNEXT, Japan's next-gen supercomputer, incorporating GPU accelerators, aimed for operation by 2030. This system intends to achieve a hundredfold increase in performance over Fugaku, featuring CPUs designed by Fujitsu and NVIDIA's high-performance GPUs. RIKEN President Makoto Gonokami states the initiative represents a paradigm shift in computational science, focusing on AI for science and the optimization of advanced computing technologies for global competitiveness, especially in semiconductor sectors.