Inspur Key: Server, Internet of Things

The State Council issued the "Decision on Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries", proposing that the development of strategic emerging industries has become a major strategy for major countries in the world to seize the commanding heights of a new round of economic and technological development. The just-concluded Central Economic Work Conference once again stated that we must solidly develop strategic emerging industries and strive to seize the commanding heights of future development strategies. The promulgation of these decisions is expected to usher in the "spring" of strategic emerging industries.

During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the state encourages enterprises to lay out new industries in advance, adopt new technological means, open up new industrial models, increase the technological content of products and services, thereby increasing benefits, realizing changes in growth patterns, and realizing the entire The transformation of the industry from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Before the introduction of the policy, some businesses with a sense of sensibility began to adjust their layout to occupy the leading position. Inspur is one of them.

"The server, the Internet of Things, and the LED industry are currently the three key areas of our layout," said Sun Weishu, chairman and chief executive of Inspur Group.

In August 2009, Inspur acquired the world's third largest memory manufacturer German Qimonda's R&D center in China, built an integrated circuit R&D platform that is synchronized with the world's advanced level, and developed the country's first large-capacity DRAM memory after the merger and acquisition. Realized that China's digital products have a proprietary intellectual property memory chip. The semiconductor chip is not only the core technology and components of the Internet of Things, but also provides support for breakthroughs in hardware and other core technologies such as servers and storage. Inspur's move succeeded in opening up its entire hardware and software industry chain, providing enterprises with a leap-forward development layout in advance.

In the aspect of the Internet of Things, Inspur will rely on independent innovation to use smart terminals (main terminal-based), cloud computing platforms (cloud center based on the Internet of Things), application middleware platforms (application-oriented middleware for Internet of Things), and industry intelligence. The four aspects of the solution are the development priorities and provide various solutions for governments, enterprises, and industries.

In the three key technology areas of the Internet of Things, the emergence of cloud computing has become the prelude to the Internet of Things. As the key area that has already taken the lead in breakthroughs in the Internet of Things, cloud computing has become a recognized core technology and development direction in the industry, and it has already reached a large scale. The conditions and foundation of the application. In the past two years, the industrial chain around the concept of cloud computing has gradually taken shape, and each part of the upstream and downstream of the value chain has its own representative group. In 2010, Inspur also released its own cloud strategy, focusing mainly on the application of “industry cloud” in China. The move is more pragmatic. “In the future, Inspur will follow the open and standardized technical route, rely on independent innovation, focus on the development of cloud infrastructure equipment such as high-end servers and mass storage, cloud computing operating systems for data centers, cloud computing service support platforms and service-oriented cloud application systems. It is committed to becoming China's leading supplier of integrated cloud and software solutions for software and hardware,” Sun Weishu told reporters.

The seven strategic emerging industries, including energy conservation, environmental protection and new materials, both involve the semiconductor lighting industry. Inspur is precisely one of the few companies in China that has full-color LED epitaxial production, die preparation, device packaging and application products. Production technology companies have a complete industrial chain in the field of semiconductor lighting.

As early as the end of 2007, Inspur entered the semi-conductor lighting field by investing in the holding of Shandong Ruisen Huaguang, which was mainly targeted at the manufacture of LED upstream products. Inspur can be described as a model of “production, research, and research” cooperation in the field of semiconductor lighting. One of the shareholders of Inspur in the semiconductor field, Shandong University, has continuously delivered scientific research talents and provided technical support, enabling Inspur to cover the entire industrial chain technically, and to constantly increase its production capacity while maintaining rapid technological advancement. Having more and more independent intellectual property rights has also become the core competitiveness of Inspur in this field. The success of this cooperation model has enabled Inspur to grow from a small research-based small business to a strong brand in the optoelectronics industry.

In 2010, the performance and market share of Inspur LED products were further improved: LED chip performance indicators of various colors of red, yellow, blue and green ranked first in China, with a market share of more than 15%, and production and sales volume ranked second in China. The market share of Hongguang chip is 25%, and the production and sales volume ranks first in China. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, Inspur plans to invest a total of RMB 5 billion in 3 to 5 years and set up four R&D and production bases in Jinan, Weifang and Linyi, which will also be the largest LED industry base in China. Sun Yushu said that it will give full play to its own intellectual property rights and R&D advantages of combining production, teaching and research, develop high-end products, realize large-scale production, continuously increase product variety, and gradually build China's largest semiconductor lighting company.