Since this year, artificial intelligence applications represented by ChatGPT and others have had a positive impact on the digital transformation of related industries. According to industry analysis, computing power has become a key productivity. Computing power integrates operational computing power, data storage power, and network carrying power, and becomes a new dynamic power to support the high-quality development of the digital economy.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data, meta-universe and other technologies, the demand for computing power continues to rise, and the demand for storage and processing of massive data continues to grow. Various emerging application scenarios have put forward higher requirements for data storage capacity, efficiency, mobility, and security. Storage technology also shows a multi-dimensional development trend.

Yu Xiaohui, president of China Information and Communication Research Institute, said that in recent years, China's energy-saving industry has maintained rapid and healthy development. On the whole, China's data storage capacity has developed steadily, and the storage capacity scale and quality have gradually improved. By June this year, compared with the same period last year, China's capacity had increased by 23% to 108 billion bytes.

& ldquo; Advanced storage mainly refers to more advanced storage in enterprise-level storage. Based on large capacity and high performance, it is based on & lsquo; Advanced Media and efficient architecture & rsquo; supported by & lsquo; Open ecology, green and low carbon, safe and reliable & rsquo;, it can be applied to storage capacity in a wider range of key scenarios. & rdquo; Recently, at the 2023 China computing power conference & ldquo; Advanced data power & rdquo; Forum, the white paper on China power (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, data storage methods are constantly updated and data storage technologies are constantly iterated, bringing more business opportunities and empowerment space, there are also some challenges.

& ldquo; On the one hand, massive data is growing exponentially and the data is accelerating; On the other hand, the key carrier for carrying data still has many challenges and problems. & rdquo; Chen Jiachun said that in this context, we should strengthen technical research and promote the innovation of storage products; Pay attention to data security, improve data management efficiency, focus on empowerment and efficiency, and focus on the implementation of storage applications.

A new round of storage technology reform is opening up new opportunities. Qu Guangnan, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out: & ldquo; Currently, 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. At the same time, we should also promote the development of our storage field from mechanical storage to advanced storage and carry out technological innovation. ”

in the view of academician Luan Guangnan, with the improvement of domestic storage machine and flash memory production capacity, the time has come for SSD to replace mechanical hard disk (HDD).

The storage capacity of data carriers is the basis for releasing the value of data elements, and the overall layout planning of Digital China Construction, & ldquo; 14th Five-Year Plan & rdquo; National Information Planning & ldquo; the 14th Five-Year Plan & rdquo; Information and communication industry development plan and a series of policy documents, on the basis of overall layout of Green Intelligence, strengthen data collection, data storage, processing, intelligent analysis and other capabilities have been fully and systematically deployed.

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 sectors of government, industry, research and application, China's energy-saving industry has developed rapidly. How to further promote the development of innovation and better grasp the historical opportunities of data elements and the development of digital economy still requires continuous joint efforts from all walks of life: first, to further stimulate the innovation vitality of the industry, at the technical level, we have extensively combined scientific research institutes, universities and leading enterprises to tackle the bottleneck of storage technology, strengthen the industry-university-research collaboration of the whole storage industry chain, and improve the innovation chain, industry chain and supply chain, at the application level, we should strengthen and promote the application innovation of existing power in the digital transformation and development of economy and society, develop high-performance products, promote the best application practices, and promote the application innovation in the whole field, the whole industry chain and the whole supply chain. The second is to further deepen the active business scenarios, facing the key areas of national economic and social development, and continuously expand the utilization of data resources around the main battlefields of digital, intelligent transformation and digital industrialization development, excavate and release application scenarios, cultivate new applications, new businesses, and new formats, create continuously growing consumer demand, and form a strong momentum for business to stimulate the development of energy. The third is to further explore the win-win situation of cooperation, strengthen the cooperation of international industrial application technology and standards, promote the international development of China's storage industry, and continuously improve China's influence and competitiveness in the global storage field, serve global digital transformation and digital economy development.

In terms of semiconductor data storage, academician Luan Guangnan believes that in the upstream of the industrial chain, China's main control chips have realized 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 sufficient technical capabilities to enter the international market. 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 the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out: & ldquo; Data storage is an important part of the trusted computing system and the last line of defense for data security. & rdquo; He pointed out that there is a lack of credibility standards and insufficient traction for domestic applications. Therefore, he called on the powerful combination of government, industry, research and research to formulate trusted storage standards, accelerate the implementation of products, and implement safe and credible evaluation, promote industry applications.

Computing power is not just a single link. The generalized computing power includes storage power, computing power and transportation power. If there is only computing without the support of storage, information communication and network, the computational power of practical significance will not be realized. Taking artificial intelligence as an example, without data-based knowledge bases and corpora, 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: & ldquo; Therefore, we believe that China will continue to take the lead in the future AI era, A very important foundation is that it must have very advanced power. I personally think it is possible to build storage into the second technology business card after China and 5G, and & lsquo; Calculate by saving & rsquo; it can make China's digital infrastructure more advanced and stay ahead. ”

industry insiders pointed out that the process of digitalization, networking and intelligence in various fields has been accelerating, driving the demand for computing power services to grow exponentially. The potential scale advantages of China's population and super-large markets will be effectively transformed into the advantages of massive data and rich application scenarios, thus driving the vigorous development of the generalized computing power industry.