Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China: Focus on making up for the shortcomings of high-end servers, CPUs, and dedicated chips

Wang Zhijun, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that he will cultivate new development momentum, focus on filling short links such as high-end servers, CPUs, and special chips, strengthen computing architecture, algorithms, and computing system innovations, and deploy quantum computing and other cutting-edge fields to give full play to the market. Drive the role of the downstream, drive the upstream, and improve the advanced computing innovation system.

Aiming at the needs of key areas such as the Internet of Vehicles, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, and smart cities, accelerate the deployment of advanced computing infrastructure and systems, and vigorously expand various applications.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also stated in late October that, in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will actively consider incorporating 5G, integrated circuits, biomedicine and other key areas into the “14th Five-Year” national special plan, and further guide enterprises to make breakthroughs in core technologies. Major scientific and technological projects and manufacturing high-quality development projects will strengthen key core technologies and products, and strengthen international cooperation in the technical field.