Open Source Innovation Center inaugurated

Writer: Han Ximin  |  Editor: Stephanie Yang  |  From:  

The China Kunpeng Open Source Innovation Center was inaugurated at Shenzhen Bay Science and Technology Park yesterday.

The inauguration of the center is an important step in implementing the strategic agreement signed by the Shenzhen government and Huawei Technologies to build the city into a demonstration area for the country’s server chip industry.

It will provide a cloud resources service to Kunpeng partners and will be the largest Kunpeng innovation center in China with a complete service system and functions to support enterprise development.

At the ceremony, Wang Lixin, vice mayor of Shenzhen, expressed his hope that the center will further integrate Shenzhen’s advantages of geographic location, industry and policies as well as the advantages of Huawei Technologies in science, ecology and innovation, and become the origin and source of the national Kunpeng ecological system and a demonstration area for technology application.

The center is a main platform for Shenzhen to become a demonstration area for Kunpeng industry ecology. On this platform, Huawei Technologies will provide cloud resources and technology support, collaborate on innovation, create industrial standards and confer test accreditation with partners. More than 250 enterprises have taken part in the Kunpeng computing industry. In Shenzhen, it has been used in administration, finance, education and health-care scenarios.

According to the agreement signed in September, Shenzhen and Huawei will work together to build the city into a national demonstration zone featuring the leading core technologies, rich application scenarios and strong industrial competitiveness, and a headquarters for the server chip ecosystem in China.

Huawei will focus on developing the high-performance Kunpeng chip series and offer high-quality cloud and artificial intelligence services based on those chips.

The two sides will build a platform that includes a Kunpeng industry open-source innovation center, Kunpeng open-source lab, a State-level industrial innovation center and a manufacturing innovation center.

Huawei announced in July that it would invest 3 billion yuan (US$440 million) over the next five years to beef up its prowess in semiconductors.

The investment will be used to bolster its leading IT infrastructure and encourage applications in all industries based on its Kunpeng processors by teaming up with a wide range of partners.

Huawei’s ARM-based central processing unit, Kunpeng 920, was unveiled in January. It is designed to meet the exponentially growing demand for bigger computing capabilities while slashing power consumption. The Kunpeng 920 is a 7 nanometer chip that is designed to help process and store large amounts of data.