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The "new infrastructure" strategy, represented by 5G, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, has been the most concerned event in China's scientific and technological circles recently.

In fact, not only is the country building a "new infrastructure" system, but every company is also building its own "new infrastructure" for the future it sees. From another perspective, each technology company contributes its own R & D investment, industrial layout and strategic judgment to the new generation of ICT technologies such as AI, cloud computing and the Internet of things, which will eventually condense into a prosperous ecology of "new infrastructure".

For Huawei, one of the most important projects in 2019 is obviously a large amount of investment and layout in the pan-computing industry. In 2019, in order to meet the needs of computing diversity in the smart world, Huawei first released the "Kunpeng + Teng" computing strategy, the business strategy of "something to do, something not to do" business strategy, and to build an open computing industry ecology. To tie in with the advance of the computing strategy, Huawei has also integrated organizations related to storage, computing and cloud services, and established the Cloud and Computing BG.

Cloud and AI strategy, which integrates a series of key industrial layouts, is undoubtedly the "strongest new infrastructure" that Huawei has built in 2019. And what kind of answer can Huawei's "new infrastructure" deliver at present?

Huawei released its 2019 annual report on March 31, which showed that Huawei's overall operation was sound, with global sales revenue of 858.8 billion yuan, an increase of 19.1% over the same period last year, net profit of 62.7 billion yuan, and cash flow of operating activities of 91.4 billion yuan, an increase of 22.4% over the same period last year. Among them, Huawei Annual report specifically mentioned the cloud and computing industry for the first time.

Huawei proposes that in the smart era, Huawei will deeply integrate AI technology and IT products with solutions to speed up the digital and intelligent process of the industry. The strategic position in this field can be said to be the cornerstone of Huawei's industry facing the intelligent development cycle of the next decade.

We can see the achievements of cloud and computing from four aspects: Kunpeng, full stack and full scene AI, developer ecology, and industrial layout.

Building a Diversity Computing World: the first report Card of Kunpeng Ecology

When analyzing Huawei's computing territory, there is no doubt that Kunpeng's strategic value and ecological value will attract the most attention.

Over the past year, the most significant change in the whole Kunpeng ecology is that it has developed from a computing infrastructure to a "Kunpeng ecology" with a comprehensive system and complete structure, which runs through software development, hardware support, and industrial applications.

The main axis of Huawei's Kunpeng ecology is the ecological strategy of "open hardware, open source software and enabling partners". On this basis, we can see:

In the hardware field, Huawei provides the industry with Kunpeng-based motherboards, SSD, network cards, raid cards, Atlas modules and board products. At present, 11 global partners have launched servers and PC products based on Kunpeng motherboard, such as Yellow River, Changhong Heavenly Palace, Ziguang Hengyue, Tongfang, Xiangjiang and so on.

In the field of software, Huawei has successively opened up the operating system, database and AI computing framework, enabling partners to develop their own-brand products and providing developers with a full-scene development framework covering "end-edge-cloud". Huawei has announced the open source operating system openEuler, database openGauss, AI computing framework MindSpore, data virtualization engine openHetu and so on. Among them, the openEuler open source operating system and the open source version of AI computing framework MindSpore have been launched.

Operating system enterprises and research institutions such as Kirin Software, Puhua basic Software, Universe Software and Software Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have participated in the establishment of the openEuler community and launched a commercial version of the operating system based on openEuler LTS (long-term support).

Driven by the coordination of soft and hard strategies, Huawei launched the Kunpeng Partnership Program, which focuses on the strategy of "platform + ecology" to guide and formulate industry standards and solve industry technical problems. At present, more than 1500 products and solutions certified by Kunpeng technology have been launched with more than 600 ISV partners, and 15 Kunpeng ecological innovation centers have been set up.

The world of diverse computing is slowly opening under the wings of Kunpeng.

Drive the future: full stack full scene AI enters full state

The importance of AI technology has been paid more and more attention by the whole society in the past two years. As the most important improvement point of computing power consumption in the world, AI is not only the future of the computing industry, but also the core solution for various industries to improve productivity and enter the intelligent era. In 2018, Huawei released the industry's only full-stack and full-scene solution. In 2019, the full stack and full scene AI strategy has entered a high-speed completion period, and important components of the planning have been opened to the industry, upgraded, or open source for developers.

At present, Huawei Atlas series products have been launched in dozens of industries based on Penton processors, and Atlas 900has broken through the computing power limit of industrial AI, while Huawei Cloud has launched 43 AI cloud services based on Teng Teng, which provides a new AI training and reasoning choice for the cloud service market.

Based on the Da Vinci architecture, CANN, an efficient programming and execution framework, provides industry with a series of interfaces from operator development to network optimization; full-scene AI computing framework MindSpore has moved towards open source; one-stop AI development and management platform ModelArts has been launched in various industries, and ModelArts 2.0 and ModelArts Pro have been launched in 2019-2020.

Full stack full scene AI, has entered the full state. And in various fields, for different industry AI cases, developer AI requirements, as well as the overall AI solution, completed the landing of a large number of AI technology. Full stack and full scene dividends continue to maintain the only advantage in the industry, calculate to release the industry dividends, and drive the intelligent development of various industries.

AI technology can be regarded as the most important technological breakthrough for Huawei in the next decade, and it is also the support of Huawei's new strategic advantage. Behind Huawei's leading industry in a large number of technologies and solutions is Huawei's huge R & D investment and R & D scale. In 2019, Huawei had about 96000 people engaged in research and development, accounting for about 49 per cent of the company's total; Huawei spent 131.7 billion yuan on R & D, accounting for about 15.3 per cent of its annual revenue. These numbers are the basis for Huawei's technology to achieve efficient rolling breakthroughs and are the core of Huawei's value for driving the future.

Ecological Power to change the World: fertile soil Project 2.0 and 1.6 million developers

For the new computing industry propositions such as AI, diverse computing and architecture innovation, the power that really changes the world is not infrastructure, but a fully dynamic development ecology, and it is the creativity of developers that finally reaches the future.

To empower the industry and developers, Huawei released the "fertile soil Program 2.0" in 2019, which plans to invest US $1.5 billion to promote the industry over five years.

So far, Huawei has reached 1.6 million cloud developers. Huawei's fertile soil Program 2.0 is upgraded from five aspects: products, empowerment, alliances, communities, and incentives. In terms of enabling, we should create a 360-degree omni-directional enabling system; in terms of alliances, we should promote the construction of industrial standards, norms, demonstration sites, and technical certification systems; in the aspect of communities, we should build application ecology by industry and build industrial ecology by region; in terms of incentives, we should further cooperate with educational and scientific research institutions to promote the broad masses of school students to understand Huawei's computing technology and obtain the computing dividends of Kunpeng and Gao Teng.

In March 2020, Huawei announced a further initiative of the "fertile soil Project 2.0", which will invest US $200 million in 2020 to promote the development of developer talents, and empower the population to segment and provide targeted empowerment measures.

The ecological answer paper is the "invisible wealth" in Huawei's annual report and the core channel for building the cloud and computing future.

One Cloud, two Wings and two engines: Huawei's "New Infrastructure" for the Smart World

In 2019, Huawei launched a comprehensive computing strategy to create a computing industry layout of "one cloud, two wings and two engines". Huawei has also focused on building the layout of related industries on top of the two backbone of Kunpeng and Teng Teng. Cloud and Computing BG not only creates a "new infrastructure" for the future, but also shows the business capabilities and industrial value of "new infrastructure" in its first report card.

In several representative industrial areas, Huawei cloud and computing systems have achieved industrial uniqueness and rapid development. For example:

1. In terms of cloud, Huawei Cloud is growing rapidly in terms of revenue, the number of paying households, and the scale of infrastructure. According to the 2019Q3 tracking report on China's public cloud service market released by IDC in February 2020, Huawei Cloud grew more than 300% in the IaaS+PaaS market for three consecutive quarters in 2019, while Huawei Cloud IaaS+PaaS and IaaS both had a market share of more than 7%, both rising to the fourth place.

In China, Huawei Cloud has served the government, Internet, automobile manufacturing, finance, genetics and other industries, including more than 30 state ministries, more than 600 government and public utilities, 30 of the top 50 Internet companies, more than 20 large car companies, and 14 genetic enterprises.

Overseas, HuaWeiYun has launched services in Singapore, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, and operates 45 availability zones in 23 geographical regions around the world with partners. Huawei Cloud provides multinational companies with globally consistent business performance public cloud services to create a globally consistent experience.

2. In terms of intelligent computing, Huawei aims at general computing, works with software and hardware partners to create rich computing products and solutions based on Kunpeng, and has been commercially deployed in government, finance, Internet and other industries. SAIC Volkswagen uses TaiShan server to build R & D HPC platform, which is optimized for open source OpenFOAM software, which effectively improves R & D efficiency by more than 30%. Japanese U-Next builds video content storage platform based on TaiShan server, the performance is improved by about 20%, and the overall TCO can be reduced by about 20% in three years.

At the same time, Huawei launched a full range of Atlas products for AI computing, covering end-side, edge-side and data center side, and deeply integrated with various industries and scenarios. At present, Huawei Atlas artificial intelligence computing series products have released more than 30 joint solutions in cooperation with ISV partners. Shenzhen Power supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid Corporation uses the intelligent operation inspection scheme based on Atlas 200to realize unmanned transmission line inspection; the square kilometer array radio telescope project uses Atlas 900to retrieve the corresponding features from 200000 stars, the retrieval time is reduced from 169days to 10 seconds; Russian ITV uses Atlas 300for video analysis algorithm to speed up, the overall performance is more than double that of the original scheme.

3. In terms of data infrastructure, Huawei has released a new generation of OceanStor distributed storage, OceanStor all-flash memory, and FusionData intelligent data lake solutions, which break the boundaries between storage and database and big data, and implement end-to-end integration and optimization of data collection, storage, calculation, management and use, so as to make data easier to use in the whole life cycle, with the highest value per bit and the best cost. By integrating intelligent technology into data infrastructure and enabling data infrastructure to enable intelligent systems, Huawei has created a unique road to intelligent data in the industry, which has received a wide range of positive feedback.

4. In the field of machine vision, Huawei has become one of the fastest growing brands in the domestic market, and has completed a series of brand, strategy and product upgrades. From software-defined cameras to algorithm malls, Huawei is redefining the machine vision market with intelligence.

From Kunpeng, full stack and full scene AI, to ecological construction and industrial layout, Huawei cloud and computing system has been greatly extended to different dimensions in a year, creating a "new infrastructure" system for the future intelligent world of communications.

For the entire cloud, AI, computing industry, Huawei's systematic advantage is unique, and has brought the innovation of "smart convergence" in many fields. These two points will drive Huawei's cloud and computing forward, turning Huawei's "new infrastructure" into a new infrastructure for all industries around the world to welcome the smart era.

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