Generative artificial intelligence promotes computing power demand, and data storage industry welcomes new opportunities.
People’s Daily Online, Beijing, August 24 (Reporter Li Qiaochu) Since the beginning of this year, the application of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT has had a positive impact on the digital transformation of related industries. According to industry analysis, computing power has become a key productive force, integrating operational computing power, data storage power and network carrying capacity, and has become a new kinetic energy to support the high-quality development of the digital economy.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data, metauniverse and other technologies, the demand for computing power is rising, and the demand for storage and processing of massive data is increasing. Various emerging application scenarios put forward higher requirements for data storage in terms of capacity, efficiency, liquidity and security, and storage technology also presents a multi-dimensional development trend.
Yu Xiaohui, president of China Information and Communication Research Institute, said that in recent years, China’s storage industry has maintained rapid and healthy development. On the whole, China’s data storage capacity has developed steadily, and the scale and quality of storage capacity have gradually improved. By June this year, compared with the same period last year, China’s storage capacity increased by 23%, reaching 108 billion bytes.
"Advanced storage mainly refers to the more advanced storage in enterprise-level storage, which is based on large capacity and high performance, supported by’ advanced media and efficient architecture’ and based on’ open ecology, green and low carbon, safety and reliability’, and can be applied to a wider range of storage capacity in key scenarios." Recently, at the forum of "Advanced Data Storage" of the 2023 China Computing Conference, the White Paper on China Storage (2023) was officially released.
With the rapid development of digital economy, data storage, management, processing and analysis have become an important part of enterprise production and economic operation. Chen Jiachun, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of internet society of china, said that with the progress of technology, the data storage methods are constantly updated, and the data storage technology is constantly iterative, which brings more business opportunities and empowerment space, but also faces some challenges.
"On the one hand, massive data is growing exponentially, and data is accelerating; On the other hand, there are still many challenges and problems in the key carriers carrying data. " Chen Jiachun said that in this context, it is necessary to strengthen technical research and promote the innovation of storage products; Pay attention to data security, improve data management efficiency, pay attention to empowerment and efficiency, and focus on the application of storage power.
A new round of storage technology revolution is opening up new opportunities. Ni Guangnan, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, pointed out: "At present, the storage field is upgrading from mechanical hard disk to semiconductor storage. We should seize the opportunity to accelerate the development of storage with the development of AI computing power, and at the same time promote the development of our storage field from mechanical storage to advanced storage and carry out technological innovation. "
In Academician Ni Guangnan’s view, with the improvement of domestic storage machine and flash memory production capacity, the time has come for solid state hard disk (SSD) to replace mechanical hard disk (HDD).
The storage capacity of data carrier is the basis for releasing the value of data elements. A series of policy documents, such as the overall layout planning of digital China construction, the national informatization planning during the 14th Five-Year Plan and the development planning of information and communication industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan, have made comprehensive and systematic arrangements for computing facilities, strengthening data acquisition, data storage, processing and intelligent analysis on the basis of overall layout of green intelligence.
How to further promote development and innovation and better grasp the historical opportunities of data elements and digital economy development?
Yu Xiaohui said that with the joint efforts of all walks of life in Industry-University-Research, China’s storage industry has developed rapidly. How to further promote the development of innovation and better grasp the historical opportunity of data elements and digital economy development requires the continuous joint efforts of all walks of life: First, to further stimulate the innovation vitality of the industry, to extensively unite scientific research institutes, universities and leading enterprises in the technical level, to tackle the bottleneck of storage technology, to strengthen the Industry-University-Research coordination of the entire storage industry chain, to improve innovation chain, the industrial chain and the supply chain, to strengthen the application innovation of storage power in the digital transformation and development of the economy and society at the application level, to develop high-performance products, to promote the best application practices, and to promote. The second is to further deepen the business scenarios of Cunli, face the key areas of national economic and social development, focus on the main battlefield of digitalization, intelligent transformation and digital industrialization development, continuously expand the utilization of data resources, tap the application scenarios of value release, cultivate new applications, new businesses and new formats, create sustained growth in consumer demand, and form a powerful kinetic energy for business to promote the development of Cunli. Third, further explore win-win cooperation, strengthen international cooperation in industrial application technology and standards, promote the international development of China’s storage industry, continuously improve China’s influence and competitiveness in the global storage field, and serve the global digital transformation and digital economy development.
In terms of semiconductor data storage, Academician Ni Guangnan believes that in the upstream of the industrial chain, China’s main control chip has achieved independent design and production, which can quickly catch up with the international advanced level; In the middle of the industrial chain, a number of domestic enterprises have enough technical ability to enter the international market, and China’s data storage industry is expected to become a new business card for China in the international market like 5G.
In terms of data security, Shen Changxiang, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, pointed out: "Data storage is an important part of trusted computing system and the last line of defense for data security." He pointed out that at present, there is a lack of credible standards, and the domestic application is insufficient. To this end, he called on the government and Industry-University-Research to make strong alliances, formulate credible storage standards, accelerate the landing of products, implement safety and credibility assessment, and promote industrial applications.
Computing power is not only a single link, but also includes storage power, computing power and transportation power in a broad sense. If there is only computing without the support of storage, information communication and network, the practical computing power will not be realized. Taking artificial intelligence as an example, without data-based knowledge base and corpus, all AI models will not be able to achieve their effects in essence.
Zhou Yuefeng, vice president of Huawei and president of data storage product line, said, "So we think that a very important foundation for China to keep ahead in the AI era in the future is to have advanced storage capacity. I personally think it is possible to build storage into the second technology business card after China and 5G, and’ strong storage’ can make China’s digital infrastructure more advanced and stay ahead. "
Insiders pointed out that the process of digitalization, networking and intelligence in various fields is accelerating, which drives the demand for computing services to increase exponentially. The potential scale advantages of China’s population and super-large market will be effectively transformed into the advantages of massive data and rich application scenarios, thus driving the vigorous development of the generalized computing industry.
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