Jul
28
China Unicom announces big AI computing strategy
(China Daily) China Unicom unveiled a big plan to accelerate the company's intelligent computing infrastructure, including exploring a 100,000-GPU cluster deployment and targeting 45 EFLOPS of computing power, by the end of 2025.
EFLOPS is a unit of the speed of computer systems and is equal to 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.
The plan, announced by Chen Zhongyue, chairman of China Unicom, at the company's partner conference in Shanghai over the weekend, is expected to position it among the world's most powerful AI computing benchmarks.
In parallel, China Unicom will advance its Computing Power Intelligence Network through substantial network upgrades. The company is accelerating its transition to ultra-high-speed 800G and 1.2T bandwidth technologies.
EFLOPS is a unit of the speed of computer systems and is equal to 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.
The plan, announced by Chen Zhongyue, chairman of China Unicom, at the company's partner conference in Shanghai over the weekend, is expected to position it among the world's most powerful AI computing benchmarks.
In parallel, China Unicom will advance its Computing Power Intelligence Network through substantial network upgrades. The company is accelerating its transition to ultra-high-speed 800G and 1.2T bandwidth technologies.