Recently, ZTE released the "White Paper on Digital Infrastructure Technology Trends", which mentioned the challenges that digital infrastructure technologies will face in the future development and ZTE's path exploration in technological innovation.
ZTE believes that with the rapid development of the digital economy, the transformation of human society towards digitalization and intelligence is inevitable. Efficient digital infrastructure is the core of the digital society. For example, in February 2023, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Digital China Construction "Overall Layout Plan" clarified that the construction of digital China should consolidate the "two foundations" of digital infrastructure and data resource system, and also put forward specific requirements in terms of network, computing power, and intelligence for opening up the main artery of digital infrastructure.
As a "road builder of the digital economy", ZTE actively responded to the relevant requirements of the country, and compiled the "Digital Infrastructure Technology Trend White Paper".
The content of the white paper mentions that connection, computing power, and intelligence are the three major technical elements of digital infrastructure. The current development is facing the problems of the limit of Shannon's theorem, the slowdown of Moore's Law, and insufficient understanding of the essence of intelligence. At the same time, it is constrained by energy conservation and emission reduction. Therefore, technological progress is now facing great challenges. In this case, ZTE believes that future technological innovation should not only focus on tapping the potential of existing technological paths, but also require the coordination and coordination of multiple technologies. coupling. The white paper describes specific technical trends in three directions: "wider connection", "stronger computing power", and "higher intelligence".
In terms of wider connections, in addition to the optimization algorithm continuing to approach Shannon’s limit, ZTE believes that it is more important to expand new frequency bands and strengthen space division multiplexing, and optoelectronic integration technology can meet the large bandwidth and low bandwidth of high-performance AI computing. Latency requirements.
In terms of stronger computing power, ZTE believes that in addition to relying on the advancement of chip technology, innovations at the architectural level are also required, such as computing architecture innovations such as storage and computing integration, peer-to-peer systems, and network architecture innovations such as computing and network integration.
In terms of intelligent technology, ZTE believes that it is necessary to develop AI chips with higher computing power/energy consumption ratio, expand the application scope of large-scale model algorithms, and help the network and other fields to move towards a higher level of intelligence.
In order to enable the digital infrastructure of "connection + computing power + intelligence" to fully empower thousands of industries, ZTE launched the "Digital Nebula" solution and platform to achieve win-win cooperation with digital operators and industry partners.
Finally, ZTE stated that it has achieved fruitful results in technological innovation in terms of technological development trends, industry development directions, and major national needs, relying on the collaboration and support of government, industry, academia, research, and users, and will continue to do so in the future Continue to work hard to promote technological innovation in the field of digital infrastructure with industry partners, and make more contributions to the digital society and intelligent society.