Recently, the 2024 IT Market Annual Conference, themed “Intelligence Leads the Frontier, Data Shapes the Future”, was held in Beijing. The conference took the form of 1 (main forum) + 4 (sub-forums on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech and industrial control systems).
Zhang Li, Director of the China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID), said that in 2023 IT technologies represented by generative AI triggered a new revolution in the intelligent era and became a driving force behind applied innovation across all industries. In this year's Government Work Report, “AI Plus” was written in for the first time, and this new formulation pointed out a new path for developing the digital economy and advancing the integration of the digital and real economies. The goal of the “AI Plus” initiative is to actively apply artificial intelligence to empower the real economy, raise the efficiency of the real economy, promote its high-quality development, and bring new industries, new models and new growth drivers to every field of the economy and society.
Su Bo, Deputy Director of the Economic Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee, said that the digital economy, driven at its core by digital technology, is developing comprehensively and rapidly, and that innovation based on digital technology has become a key support for forming new quality productive forces. In the future, artificial intelligence and data elements will become the main theme of digital technology development. Application scenarios around artificial intelligence and data elements are expected to keep unfolding, driving the cultivation, growth and development of new quality productive forces in the IT sector and bringing new growth drivers to all industries. At the same time, the deep combination of artificial intelligence and data elements will also spark new ideas in the industrial, economic and social fields.
On the topic of promoting the prosperity of the RISC-V ecosystem, Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, analysed the differences between the RISC-V architecture and the X86 and ARM architectures, and pointed out that with the development of AGI, the construction of AI computing power centres in China is flourishing. Although x86 servers have a high market share, their price-performance ratio and energy-efficiency ratio are hard to improve, so new DSA servers based on the RISC-V architecture will enter a period of development opportunity, helping China foster new industries, new models and new growth drivers and develop new quality productive forces.
Fu Changwen, President of CCID Consulting, noted that in the intelligent era the ICT industry is undergoing a series of dramatic changes from within and without, and that seen from the perspective of a tipping point, the future holds infinite possibilities. He then focused on the eight key battlegrounds for the intelligent development of the ICT field, namely infrastructure, product ecosystems, regional development, employment structure, intelligent applications, energy challenges, cybersecurity and ICT governance, and made assessments of future trends in each.
In the meantime, representatives of companies including Yonyou, China Unicom Digital Technology, Inspur Cloud and Huawei delivered speeches on digital transformation, diversified computing power development and other topics. In addition, CCID Consulting reviewed and summarised the current state of development and future trends of the sub-sectors of the ICT industry, released a series of ICT research results, and held the signing ceremony for the CCID Sci-Tech Innovation Centre as well as the award ceremony for the winning projects of the first IT Innovation Competition. (Reporter: Li Zhengwei)
Source: Guangming Online
