Inspur information is the world's leading provider of new IT infrastructure products, solutions and services. Inspur Information takes "smart computing" as its strategy, builds an open and integrated computing ecosystem through computing products and solutions of "hardware reconfiguration+software definition", builds a smart computing platform for customers to meet diverse scenarios, and comprehensively promotes the wide application of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and Internet of Things and the digital transformation and reshaping of traditional industries. By constantly improving the server software and hardware research and development system based on customer demand, the company has formed a series of cloud computing Iaas products with independent intellectual property rights, covering high, medium and low-end servers. At the same time, the company is in a global leading position in the fields of servers, AI computing and open computing, leading the development of new infrastructure for AI industrialization, industrial AI and intelligent computing.
Paying attention to technology research and development is the premise of the company's past performance, and it is also the basis for sustained high-speed growth in the future. From developing SMP2000, the first minicomputer server in China, to becoming the top two server suppliers in the world, mastering the core technology and changing the competition pattern has always been the core of the company's corporate culture. The company continuously develops an intelligent computing technology system with large computing power and large model as the core. In 20021year, the company invested 2.833 billion yuan in R&D, up by 1 1.79% year-on-year, accounting for 4.22% of the operating income. The company has made great progress in the technology of converged architecture, put forward a computing architecture with computing as the core, and realized the cache consistency high-speed bus interconnection between CPU and accelerator in the node. Based on this technology, the company has developed the first accelerator in China that supports high-speed computing connection consistency bus. The average data access delay between CPU and accelerator is reduced by 80%, and the data access delay between nodes can be as low as sub-microsecond level.
During the reporting period, faced with the opportunity of digital transformation in the main economic battlefield, the company continued to focus on smart computing represented by cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, made clear the development trend of the industry from computing to smart computing, adhered to the strategy of "openness, integration and agility", and continued to innovate the R&D, production, delivery and service modes, and maintained a rapid growth momentum in various businesses. In addition, in the field of general computing, the newly released M6 server of Inspur Information 202 1 broke the world performance test record of 165 SPEC, and won five track titles such as the most common SPEC CPU Cint, SPECjbb enterprise Java application and SPEC power industry energy consumption evaluation. Inspur information's AI server products won 44 first places in MLPerfTM 202 1 global authoritative AI benchmark test, ranking first in MLPerfTM202 1. According to the latest data from IDC, Inspur Information's server products ranked the top two in the world in 20021year, and continued to lead the China market with a market share of 30%+. According to the latest data from Gartner, Inspur Storage ranked in the top five in the world in 20021year, and ranked second in the second storage market in the world. Inspur information has been selected as the challenger of Gartner's main storage magic quadrant for two consecutive years.
The company seized the opportunity of intelligent new infrastructure industry to achieve growth. The company is at the forefront in the field of artificial intelligence. While breaking through the core technology of AI, the business layout of hardware, platform, management and framework has been completed. In 20021year, the company took the lead in the layout of intelligent computing center business, and further strengthened the product system and industrial ecological construction around the four key operational links of AI computing power production, aggregation, scheduling and release. It is also leading in market performance. According to the latest data released by IDC, from 20 17 to the first half of 20021year, the company's AI server ranked first in the China market, maintaining its leading position in intelligent computing. In the report "Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure, Q4 202 1" published by Forrester, an international authoritative analysis organization, the company is located in the outstanding challenger quadrant by virtue of its full AI stack capability.
The cloud computing revolution is still the biggest growth opportunity for the global server market in the past few years. The company is the biggest beneficiary of cloud servers and the largest cloud server supplier in the world. According to the Tracking Report of China Edge Computing Server Market in the First Half of 20021released by IDC, in the first half of 20021,Inspur Edge Server ranked first in China market with 49.4% market share.
The company said that the rapid development of Inspur information benefited from the company's forward-looking judgment on the computing industry, actively implemented the intelligent computing strategy, took the lead in laying out technical fields such as artificial intelligence and edge, and continued to deepen its cultivation in the field of intelligent computing relying on products, technologies and ecology. At present, intelligent computing has become the core productivity to promote the development of digital economy and social change. As the world's leading smart computing enterprise, Inspur will constantly improve and strengthen the product technology layout based on the principle of open source, actively develop open computing and AI, provide computing power support for smart computing centers, and develop deeper and wider in computing power infrastructure, helping enterprises seize the new opportunities of digital transformation, inject infinite wisdom and vitality into the digital economy, and draw a beautiful blueprint under the new pattern.