China News Service, Shanghai, November 6 (Yin Qianyun, Lan Yini) "We look forward to co-creating products with Chinese partners." Intel China Chairman Wang Zhicong said in an exclusive interview with China News Service during the 9th China International Import Expo.
Wang Zhicong recalled that 30 years ago, foreign-funded enterprises like Intel mainly introduced advanced products to the Chinese market and then met the needs of the Chinese market through system-level innovation.
"Now we are gradually discovering that the creativity of local Chinese companies is constantly increasing, and many excellent technology companies have emerged." Wang Zhicong said that compared with the past, Intel is more willing to conduct in-depth technical discussions with partners in the Chinese market before a complete product is formed.
He revealed that the two parties are currently discussing some product and technical concepts. “I hope that at next year’s CIIE, we can display products co-designed with Chinese customers.”
This change in cooperation model is inseparable from the unique advantages of the Chinese market. In Wang Zhicong’s view, China not only has a huge market size, but also has rich technology application scenarios and the ability to rapidly iterate innovation.
He believes that in the past ten years, China's science and technology industry has developed rapidly and formed a relatively complete industrial chain ecology and scientific research system. Whether it is software, hardware, or models, servers, and edge computing, Intel can find partners in China to leverage their respective technological advantages through collaborative innovation.
"The scale advantages, innovation capabilities and rapid iteration capabilities of the Chinese market are of great significance to Intel." Wang Zhicong said that excellent products and solutions that have succeeded in the Chinese market will also have the opportunity to enter the global market in the future.
At this CIIE, Intel brought an integrated solution for green power storage and computing power (green computing power cabin). This solution adopts a container design, and a single container-type computing cabin can accommodate 12 standard cabinets.
"The core of this solution is to deploy computing power nearby and convert electricity into computing power at the location where green power is generated." Wang Zhicong said that traditional large-scale data centers usually take more than two years from planning to completion of civil construction, while computing power cabins do not require the construction of dedicated buildings and can be deployed as long as there is free space. When business demand increases, more computing power cabins can be added for networking, which has strong expansion capabilities.
"Our computing power cabin can enter western China in the future and combine it with new energy sources such as light energy and wind energy to convert computing power into word elements." Wang Zhicong said.
He also mentioned that with the development of artificial intelligence, the challenges faced by the industry continue to expand, extending from traditional computing to energy supply, computing infrastructure and other fields. To cope with these challenges, it is necessary to break through the original industry boundaries and carry out cross-industry cooperation.
The CIIE provides an important platform for this kind of cross-field cooperation. Wang Zhicong believes that through this platform, Intel can contact a large number of customers from different industries, further understand market needs, and determine whether existing products and solutions truly meet the development needs of various industries in China.
Wang Zhicong said that Intel has formed a very complete business layout in China, covering manufacturing, technology research and development, basic technology research, as well as technology and business departments serving the local technology industry.
In his view, the Chinese market has always occupied an important position in Intel's global footprint. "Our vision for the future is to collaborate more deeply with China's technology ecosystem to create, first meet the needs of the Chinese market, and then return mature technologies and products to the global market."
