Recently, at the 2023 World Computing Conference, Xu Zhijun, Vice Chairman and Rotating Chairman of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., delivered an important speech. In his speech, Xu Zhijun revealed the latest progress of Huawei's computing strategy and his judgment on the ecological development direction of China's artificial intelligence computing industry.
Xu Zhijun pointed out that China's computing industry is currently facing increasing pressure. Everything from design tools, materials, manufacturing equipment to chip products has been affected. He reminded people not to have illusions, but to unswervingly build a sustainable computing industry ecosystem.
Xu Zhijun believes that to promote the development of the computing industry, large-scale use of computing technology is needed. The development of computing chips should be based on available chip manufacturing processes, while the construction of computing infrastructure should be based on sustainably obtained computing chips and ecosystems.
Xu Zhijun also emphasized that there are still many problems that need to be solved in the basic areas of the computing industry. For example, it was previously impossible to produce network card chips and RAID card chips, and even power management chips for servers could not be manufactured. Therefore, we must return to the basic areas of the computing industry and continuously solve these problems.
He said: "There are still some gaps between the chips, servers and personal computers we produce compared to foreign production. But if we don't use them, this gap will always be a gap, and lagging behind will always be lagging behind. But if it is adopted on a large scale, it may push us With the progress of the entire technology and products, we will gradually catch up.”
Xu Zhijun said that using clusters and cloud services as the main direction of computing infrastructure is one of the solutions. He believes that it is not impossible to support the fundamental foundation and sustainable development of the country’s computing power, or even lead. Although affected by the semiconductor production process, the computing power of a single chip may not be enough, but based on integration technology, multiple CPUs and multiple AI processors are connected to form a cluster, and then the distributed means of cloud computing are used to meet the needs. National computing power needs.
In addition to the current popular direction of artificial intelligence, Xu Zhijun called on universities to increase their efforts in cultivating talents in key processors, operating systems, and databases. In terms of policy, some measures should be taken to activate the open source ecosystem. He said that the future competition in the computing industry will not only focus on the development of artificial intelligence technology, but also focus on the innovation and development of the computing industry foundation, core technology and ecological construction.
With the development of the computing industry, it has become an important strategic area for national development. Huawei is also actively exploring and innovating to actively embrace the digital age. Huawei will make greater contributions to the healthy and continuous development of China's computing industry ecosystem and work hard to realize a digital China!