The article provides an in‑depth analysis of Ethernet switches, covering downstream data‑center demand, midstream brand versus manufacturing service dynamics, upstream ASIC market size, and three key industry trends such as white‑box decoupling, high‑speed port growth, and market concentration.
This article defines distributed storage, presents China's market size and growth rates from 2021 to 2022, breaks down the market into file, block, and object segments, highlights the top adopting industries, and outlines nine key application scenarios driving rapid expansion.
The 2024 China server CPU industry overview analyzes the dominance of X86 and ARM ecosystems, presents market size growth from 2018 to 2028, examines competitive advantages of domestic vendors, and discusses policy-driven demand and pricing challenges shaping the domestic CPU market.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China’s edge cloud market, defining the technology, outlining its key characteristics, tracing industry evolution, analyzing market size and growth drivers, and discussing future opportunities and challenges in the digital and intelligent transformation era.
The article analyzes how Kimi’s superior long‑context capabilities have propelled it to the top of user traffic in China, reshaping the competitive dynamics among domestic and international AI large models and driving a rapid surge in compute demand across both C‑end and B‑end applications.
The report released at the China AIGC Industry Summit outlines a rapidly expanding AIGC market projected to reach 200 billion RMB in 2024 and a trillion‑scale by 2030, highlighting dominant AI‑native applications, multimodal growth, investment concentration on leading players, and distinct B‑end and C‑end business models.
The article analyzes how the surge in AIGC and large language models is reshaping the AI server market, detailing hardware composition, the rise of heterogeneous computing, GPU advantages, demand calculations for models like GPT‑3, and the competitive landscape driving rapid industry growth.
The article analyzes the rapid evolution of AI servers, detailing the shift from general‑purpose to GPU‑enhanced AI hardware, the split between training and inference workloads, cost structures, forecasted compute needs for large models like GPT‑4, and the impact of US export restrictions and domestic competition on the global market.
The 2024 China “Hundred-Model War” report analyzes how ten major domestic large‑model vendors compete across five dimensions—team, product, infrastructure, ecosystem, and development—revealing that Baidu and Huawei dominate overall while others show niche strengths and growth opportunities.
The article examines how recent Chinese cybersecurity regulations have heightened the importance of business continuity, explains key disaster‑recovery metrics RPO and RTO, outlines data‑, application‑, and business‑level backup tiers, analyzes the cloud‑based disaster‑recovery market growth, and highlights sector‑specific demands such as in healthcare.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of the electric vehicle sector, outlining its massive market potential, strong policy backing, technological breakthroughs, environmental imperatives, and the resulting employment opportunities while warning that firms unable to adapt may be eliminated.
This article provides an overview of China’s Xinchuang (information technology innovation) ecosystem, explaining the concepts and classifications of operating systems, middleware, databases, and firmware, presenting market share statistics, and highlighting the key components that shape the industry’s autonomous and secure IT landscape.
The article explains how High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology has evolved to HBM3E, details its technical advantages, outlines the rapid growth of AI server shipments, projects a $15 billion HBM market by 2025, and analyzes the competitive landscape of major suppliers and packaging methods.
An IDC‑based analysis shows that while Ethernet remains dominant in data‑center networking, both Ethernet and InfiniBand are growing, with detailed vendor shares, port shipment estimates, and speed‑grade trends revealing a nuanced competitive landscape for 2023‑2024.
The article analyzes the global CPU and GPU markets, showing Intel and AMD's overwhelming share, the rise of new data‑center players, key performance metrics for CPUs, the constraints of instruction‑set ecosystems, and emerging AI‑chip design trends that could open space for domestic Chinese manufacturers.
Despite the surge in AI investments, IDC data shows that high‑speed Ethernet continues to outpace InfiniBand in data‑center switch sales, with strong growth in both revenue and port shipments across DC, campus, and edge markets in Q3 2023.
This article examines the global and Chinese switch market size, explains switch definitions and classifications, details hardware components and architectural styles—including Full‑Mesh, Crossbar, and CLOS—covers technical principles, performance metrics, and contrasts with hubs and routers, and explores data‑center and industrial switch deployments and their future challenges.
Software-defined storage (SDS) combines distributed and virtualization technologies to decouple storage software from hardware, offering flexible scaling, higher utilization, and a market dominated by a few Chinese vendors, while outlining its architecture, benefits, and competitive landscape.
The 2023 Ethernet switch chip industry report outlines the technology, market structure, business models, development history, value chain, market size, and competitive landscape of commercial and self‑developed Ethernet switch chips, highlighting high entry barriers, concentration among leading vendors, and growth driven by data‑center and digital‑economy demand.
The 2023 Chinese server CPU industry report details the sector’s rapid growth, classification by instruction set architectures, market characteristics, supply chain analysis, size fluctuations, future forecasts, and competitive dynamics among domestic and foreign manufacturers.
The 2023 GPU graphics‑card report provides a comprehensive overview of China's graphics‑card industry, detailing current development, OEM product lines, the evolution of mining, post‑Ethereum‑merge market shifts, full‑chain analysis, and forecasts for downstream demand across gaming, AI, data‑center, and automotive applications.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s solid‑state drive (SSD) industry, covering its definition, classification, market size, growth drivers, business models, supply‑chain structure, competitive landscape, user segments, and future technological trends.
The article defines high‑performance computing, presents China's dominant share in the Top500 supercomputer rankings, details recent global and Chinese HPC market growth rates, forecasts market size to 2026, and cites multiple industry reports as sources.
The recent CITIC Bank procurement reveals that ARM servers now dominate Chinese data‑center purchases, accounting for 77% of server spend, while global ARM server share is growing rapidly despite x86's historic dominance, driven by cost, performance‑per‑watt advantages and geopolitical constraints.
In this interview, Alibaba Cloud’s database product leader Wang Yuan shares his market‑size calculations for China’s database sector, discusses the challenges facing dozens of domestic vendors, outlines Yaochi’s cloud‑native vision, AI‑driven features, PolarDB innovations, and the company’s open‑source approach.
The article analyzes the FPGA industry's two historical phases, compares international and Chinese vendors, examines product families, process technologies, market shares, demand trends, and highlights opportunities for domestic substitution and future growth in both hardware and software ecosystems.
This article explains what a product roadmap is, outlines its various types—including strategic, market, project, and release roadmaps—describes how to create an effective roadmap by aligning with company goals, gathering information, prioritizing features, and using simple tools like Excel or PPT.
The article analyzes Taiwan’s mature ICT ecosystem, its dominant share in global server OEM/ODM production, the surge in AI compute demand driven by large language models, and how companies like Wistron, Quanta and Inventec are positioned to benefit from expanding AI server and CoWoS markets.
The report builds a comprehensive GPU research framework evaluating performance through micro‑architecture, process, core count and frequency, examines ecosystem dominance of CUDA, dissects NVIDIA Fermi and Hopper designs, analyzes competitive histories of Nvidia and AMD, and forecasts domestic GPU market opportunities in AI data centers, autonomous vehicles, and gaming.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's power management chip market, detailing its steady growth, market size, classifications, industry characteristics, supply chain analysis, competitive landscape, and offering related downloadable research reports.
The article analyzes China's automotive simulation market—covering CAD, CAE, and CAM technologies, their roles in product design, performance analysis, and manufacturing, projected growth from 33 billion yuan in 2021 to 77.8 billion yuan by 2026 with a 15.4% CAGR, key players, supply‑chain structure, and future challenges.
This article analyzes the current DPU market share of major global players, evaluates the rapid rise of Chinese DPU vendors, outlines the industry value chain, estimates the total market size through server‑based calculations, and projects a 2025 global DPU market exceeding $260 billion with a CAGR above 50%.
A 2022 survey of Chinese software testing professionals uncovers how layoffs, new government policies, and emerging technologies are reshaping testing work forms, tool preferences, salary distributions, career entry routes, and the overall market landscape.
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of Southeast Asia's fintech landscape, covering market size, demand, full‑stack digital finance services, Akulaku's technical architecture, AI‑driven anti‑fraud solutions, and practical Q&A on real‑time credit and digital banking.
This article examines the highly concentrated DPU market, highlighting the dominant global vendors Nvidia, Broadcom and Intel, and provides a detailed analysis of emerging Chinese manufacturers—including NebulaX, Paratus, xFusion, Chiplet, and K2—covering their architectures, performance claims, and strategic positioning.
The Gartner 2022 China HCI report reveals a rapidly maturing hyper‑converged infrastructure market, detailing growth forecasts, expanding use cases from VDI to edge and hybrid cloud, and a competitive shift toward domestic vendors across large‑scale, specialist, and crossover categories.
The explosive growth of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots is driving unprecedented demand for high‑performance AI chips and high‑bandwidth memory, positioning Nvidia as the primary beneficiary while also creating significant market opportunities for Samsung, SK Hynix, and other semiconductor manufacturers.
The 2022 H1 Chinese cloud market report reveals that Alibaba Cloud leads the IaaS and IaaS+PaaS segments, Amazon ranks second, while Huawei and Tencent hold third places, with overall market size reaching 1.956 trillion yuan and growth slowed by macro‑economic uncertainty, prompting a shift toward refined multi‑cloud ecosystems.
The 2022 Hyperion Research HPC market report shows a $348 billion total market in 2021, with servers leading, HPC Cloud growing 23% to $62 billion, storage and AI‑enabled servers driving the fastest growth, and detailed forecasts for vendors, applications, networking, and operating‑system migration.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China's six leading domestic server CPU manufacturers, detailing their instruction‑set classifications, product lineups, performance specifications, ecosystem integration, and market positioning, and predicts short‑term beneficiaries and long‑term industry trends.
Despite the global popularity of sports video games such as FIFA and NBA 2K, the Chinese market struggles with few titles, homogeneous gameplay, high development barriers, and monetization issues, prompting a need for diversified design, esports integration, and strategic marketing to unlock its large potential.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Ethernet switches, covering their core functions, classification by scope, speed and application, detailed operation principles, market size and growth trends, switch chip technology, white‑box solutions, and the leading vendors' market shares worldwide.
The 2022 China Cloud Computing Ecosystem report defines cloud services, presents market growth figures, maps the ecosystem across infrastructure, platform, SaaS, and verticals, and outlines nine major industry trends—from edge‑distributed cloud to zero‑trust security—offering insight into opportunities and investment hotspots.
The DDR3 niche DRAM market, still worth over $70 billion globally, is shrinking but remains vital for low‑capacity consumer, industrial and automotive applications, while the industry sees major players exiting and Chinese firms expanding their presence amid evolving DDR technologies.
Alibaba Cloud’s new whitepaper reveals that cloud‑native data lakes are becoming essential for big‑data initiatives, highlighting market growth, competitive landscape, current applications across industries, selection guidelines, and future trends, while offering a downloadable report for deeper insights.
This article summarizes the 2022 Chinese server CPU research framework, covering server fundamentals, logical architecture, CPU roles and cost impact, instruction-set classifications (CISC vs RISC), major architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS), the industry value chain, market size trends, and global competitive dynamics across server, desktop, and mobile segments.
The article analyzes Wanli Database’s rise to the leader quadrant in the CCID “14th Five‑Year Plan” key‑application database market report, detailing its technical advancement, security credentials, distributed architecture, industry collaborations, and open‑source initiatives that underpin its competitive edge.
The report estimates that China's Xinchuang (independent‑innovation) market across eight strategic industries encompasses over 2.3 million PCs and 0.57 million servers, representing more than 1 trillion CNY in PC hardware and 2.5 trillion CNY in server hardware, with an annualized market potential exceeding 900 billion CNY when combined with government sector demand.
The report analyses the rapid growth of China's Xinchuang industry, estimating that county‑level government and public‑sector adoption could unlock a market worth over one trillion yuan, with total sector valuations ranging from 924 billion to 2.63 trillion yuan across three population scopes.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China's enterprise SSD market in 2021, detailing six business models, key component manufacturers, NAND flash market shares, firmware importance, and the impact of AI, big data, and 5G on storage demand, while also highlighting major players such as Intel, Samsung, and Yangtze Memory.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of BIOS and BMC firmware, explaining their technical fundamentals, the evolution from legacy BIOS to UEFI, the global market size, the competitive landscape of major vendors, and the specific role of Chinese firm Baiao within the X86 ecosystem.
This article provides a detailed overview of BIOS, BMC, and UEFI technologies, explains their functions and differences, examines the global firmware market size, outlines the industry supply chain, and profiles major vendors such as AMI, Phoenix, Insyde, and Easytec.
The 2021 China DPU Industry Development White Paper outlines DPU’s key use cases across data centers, cloud, security, AI, edge, storage and streaming, analyzes the competitive landscape among major vendors, and projects rapid global and Chinese market growth through 2025.
This article analyses the current state of China's industrial software—covering EDA, CAD, and CAE markets—highlighting domestic market shares, the dominance of foreign giants, development difficulties, misconceptions, and the key factors that hinder the growth of home‑grown solutions.
This article examines how the health of hardware, software, and developer ecosystems determines the survival and market dominance of operating systems, using historical examples like Wintel, the challenges faced by Chinese OS vendors, and strategic recommendations for future domestic OS development.
The 2021 China PaaS market research report reveals a 2020 market size of 280.5 billion CNY with a 48% CAGR, classifies PaaS into four core value types, highlights technology‑enablement PaaS as the dominant segment, and outlines vendor distribution, user preferences, and emerging trends such as integration services, trust‑innovation, and carbon‑neutral solutions.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of GPU technology, covering its multi‑core architecture, market oligopoly among Intel, NVIDIA and AMD, classifications of integrated and independent GPUs, and the three major application trends of gaming performance, artificial intelligence/deep learning, and autonomous driving.
The article analyzes the current X86 market dominance of Intel, AMD's rapid advancement with its Zen architecture and 7nm process, the competitive landscape of server and consumer CPUs, and the emergence of Chinese domestic processors built on licensed X86 technology.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese graph database market, covering its origins, government policies, market size estimates, vendor rankings, funding activities, product features, challenges, and future prospects, while referencing numerous industry reports and case studies.
Since 2018, Firefox has lost 46 million monthly active users, dropping from 244 million to 198 million, as users favor Chromium‑based browsers for better performance, default status, and privacy concerns, prompting a call for continued support of Firefox as a vital anti‑monopoly alternative.
This article chronicles the evolution of Ruixing antivirus from its 1990s founding and dominant market share of up to 80% to its recent shift toward enterprise security, highlighting key industry competition, pricing changes, and user experience issues such as ads, performance slowdown, and uninstall difficulty.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of hybrid cloud, covering its broad and narrow definitions, architectural components, key technologies such as cloud application architecture, management, load migration, security considerations, user demand analysis, vendor classification, and the current Chinese market trends and future outlook.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of GPU technology, its architecture, rapid market growth, segmentation by type, device and industry, cloud deployment trends, competitive landscape, and diverse applications ranging from high‑performance computing and AI to automotive, AR/VR, and IoT.
This article shares a five‑year journey of building a low‑code front‑end platform, explains the concept and key industry definitions, analyses market size and leader classifications, and discusses product strategy, service‑ization, code conversion, pandemic‑driven use cases, and future directions for low‑code adoption.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of NAND flash technology—including SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC types, 2D versus 3D architectures, market share dynamics, Chinese market opportunities and challenges, and the leading global manufacturers such as Samsung, Toshiba, and Micron.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s Xinchuang industry in 2023, detailing its $104.3 billion market size, the domestic CPU ecosystem, operating system adoption, database and middleware players, and the rapidly growing information‑security sector driven by cloud and IoT technologies.
Datadog, a cloud‑native monitoring platform, has surged from a modest startup to a $30‑billion market cap by expanding its product suite, leveraging strong probe technology, and capitalizing on the booming cloud‑monitoring market, with financials and customer retention indicating robust growth prospects.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the high‑performance computing (HPC) storage and networking market from 2020 to 2024, detailing component growth rates, vendor market shares, storage media trends, network interconnect preferences, and upcoming exascale system designs across the US, Japan, China, and Europe.
The 2021 report analyzes the scope of AI chips, examines global and Chinese market dynamics, profiles typical AI chip manufacturers, and provides concise overviews of cloud and edge AI chip segments while highlighting current challenges and future trends shaping the industry.
The article examines the rapid growth of global data volumes and cloud computing, detailing the evolution of the IDC industry in the US and China, and provides a comprehensive financial and strategic analysis of Equinix’s market position, services, and future growth prospects.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of operating systems, analyzes the rise of Chinese domestic OS such as Kylin, Deepin and HarmonyOS, examines market share trends across desktop, server and mobile platforms, and forecasts the economic potential of government, enterprise and consumer adoption over the next five years.
The article analyzes how the rapid rollout of 5G and the expanding capacity of modern data centers are creating a long‑term boom for optical modules, detailing market forecasts, network architecture shifts, supply‑chain consolidation, domestic chip advancements, and the competitive positioning of key industry players.
The article describes a supply‑demand modeling framework for the idle second‑hand market that extracts and structures product attributes, builds a decision‑tree‑based index from price, inventory, search‑hotspot and demand‑activation sub‑models, and uses the index to optimize category allocation, boost scarce supply, and drive overall growth.
The article analyzes China's GPGPU market, explaining the technology, current applications, rapid growth forecasts, supply‑side concentration, policy support, and the urgent need for domestic alternatives to meet soaring AI and high‑performance computing demand.
This article explains middleware as foundational software for distributed systems, outlines its evolution from early transaction monitors to modern Java and .NET stacks, categorizes its various types, and analyzes global and Chinese market sizes while profiling leading domestic vendors.
This article explains middleware fundamentals, its evolution in distributed systems, classifies its major types, analyzes global and Chinese market growth, and profiles key domestic vendors such as Dongfangtong, Baoland, Puyuan, Kingdee, Zhongchuang, Alibaba, and Tencent.
The IDC Q2 2020 report shows global data‑center hardware markets where server revenue surged 19.8% to $24 billion, storage revenue fell 5% to $6.3 billion, and Ethernet switch revenue slipped 6.3%, with China outperforming in all three segments.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of China's IDC market—highlighting its 29.8% year‑over‑year increase in 2018, the drivers behind this surge, regional distribution patterns, emerging trends such as large‑scale and edge data centers, and how these compare with global data‑center dynamics.
China's Internet Data Center (IDC) industry, valued at 1600 billion yuan in 2019, is transitioning from basic services to high‑performance, cloud‑driven solutions, with CAPEX and OPEX dominated by infrastructure and power costs, while 5G and cloud growth fuel further market expansion.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of database technology, covering relational and NoSQL systems, the historical evolution from navigational to self‑driving databases, current market size and growth, leading vendors, and the accelerating shift toward cloud‑based database services.
This article provides a detailed introduction to databases and DBMS, explains relational and NoSQL models, traces the evolution from navigational to autonomous databases, analyzes global and Chinese market sizes and leading vendors, and discusses the growing shift toward cloud‑based database services.
This case study details how 58.com responded to the COVID‑19 pandemic by conducting market and user research, analyzing business opportunities, and creating a comprehensive design system—including brand, visual, illustration, and AI‑driven tools—to enhance service breadth, improve user experience, and drive growth across online and offline channels.
The 2019 Q4 IDC report shows the global hyper‑converged infrastructure market reached $4.2 billion with a 1.1% YoY rise, highlighting Dell’s 33.3% share, VMware’s software dominance, Nutanix’s leadership, and the rapid rise of Chinese vendors such as Huawei, H3C and Sangfor, while outlining each vendor’s strengths, strategies, and market challenges.
TikTok’s explosive growth—surpassing 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active users—has been driven by aggressive acquisitions, localized content strategies, and massive marketing spend, but it now faces intense regulatory scrutiny and bans in key markets like India, the United States, and Hong Kong.
This article examines the evolution of operating systems from early mainframes to modern desktop, mobile, and cloud platforms, analyzes global and Chinese market shares of Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, highlights the rapid growth of domestic Chinese OS projects, and forecasts future opportunities in government, enterprise, and consumer sectors.
This article reviews the development histories and market shares of Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and the Chinese UOS, compares their ecosystems and office suites, and discusses how UOS and WPS may challenge Microsoft’s dominance in the domestic desktop operating‑system market.
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical development, current market dominance of foreign operating systems, the rapid rise of Chinese domestic OS, policy-driven security concerns, and projected multi‑billion‑yuan market opportunities for OS across government, enterprise, and consumer sectors in the next five years.
The article compiles 2020 industry data, revealing programmer salary averages, Alibaba Cloud's second‑place global security rating, DB‑Engines database popularity, IDC's cloud services market growth, Baidu's accelerated cloud center construction, a dip in global Ethernet switch revenue, and China Mobile's massive data‑center investment.
Baidu’s CEO Li Yanhong launched a book‑themed live broadcast with Fan Deng, drawing over 9.2 million viewers, and the article analyzes how Baidu’s knowledge‑focused live streaming strategy leverages its search engine strengths, creator ecosystem, and market trends to differentiate from entertainment‑driven platforms.
An analysis of recent data from Canalys, Synergy Research Group and other sources reveals that the global cloud computing market grew 37.6% to $107.1 billion in 2019, projects continued rapid expansion to $2840 billion by 2024, and compares the performance and strategies of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, market evolution, and technical characteristics of PowerPC, x86, and ARM processors, comparing their performance, power consumption, vector capabilities, and ecosystem support while highlighting why each architecture succeeded or struggled in the industry.
This article reviews the global and Chinese conversational AI landscape, outlines its three-tier architecture, highlights leading companies, analyzes market growth forecasts, and presents case studies from Amazon Alexa, Nuance, and Google Assistant, offering insights into challenges and design principles.
The article outlines systematic approaches and practical tips for conducting industry research, covering the overall research framework, step‑by‑step information‑gathering methods, categorisation of data sources, efficiency‑boosting tactics, and best practices for deep interviews to derive actionable business insights.
The article examines the 2019 SaaS and cloud market, detailing Oracle's shift toward SaaS, Salesforce's expansive ecosystem, SAP's multi‑cloud strategy, and Workday's growth in HCM and finance, while providing revenue figures and strategic insights for each provider.
The article analyzes the impact of China’s early 5G commercial license issuance on telecom operators, equipment manufacturers, and mobile handset makers, forecasting capital‑spending shifts, market pressures, technology choices, and consumer adoption hurdles that will shape the industry’s short‑ and long‑term trajectory.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to cloud computing, covering its origins, core concepts, service models (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), deployment models (public, private, hybrid), major providers, and recent market trends that shape the industry today.
The article analyzes ByteDance's strategic pivot from consumer‑focused apps to B2B solutions like Lark, explaining market pressures, investment history, and how this shift could reshape competition among Chinese internet giants.
Southeast Asia's e-commerce market has surpassed $100 billion, driven by economic growth and a burgeoning middle class, with countries like Indonesia leading the charge.
This article examines the rapid rise of KaiOS in India and other emerging markets, tracing its origins from Firefox OS, highlighting its unique feature‑phone strategy, partnerships, criticisms, and future prospects as a potential competitor to Android and iOS.
This article examines the rapid growth of cloud computing in China and globally, analyzing public cloud market share, major providers, investment trends, sector-specific forecasts, and the impact of emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, big data, and 5G on future cloud services.
