Huawei to Build Xiamen Chip Base, USD218 Million Supercomputing Center

TANG SHIHUA

(Yicai Global) July 29 — Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies will build its first software and hardware development platform for partners in Xiamen, in southeastern China’s Fujian province.

The world’s largest telecom equipment maker will also invest CNY1.5 billion (USD218 million) to build a supercomputing center, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Xiamen’s city government and Shenzhen-based Huawei yesterday penned a cooperation agreement to kick off the facility and the supercomputing center.

The platform project, which is called the Kunpeng Ecological Base and is centered on the Kunpeng 920 server processor Huawei unveiled at the start of the year, aims to entice partners to settle in and jointly develop new products to form a processor-centric ecosystem.

The supercomputing center will use Kunpeng 920 as its core server to provide end-to-end computing capabilities for key units such as government agencies, large and medium state-owned enterprises, and key industries in Xiamen.

Huawei announced at a recent meeting that it will invest CNY3 billion in the next five years to develop the industrial ecology centered around its Kunpeng chips.

Editor: Ben Armour