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Huawei Encourages Digital Inclusion, Build Developers’ Ecosystem for Com-

puting, and Unveils Future Strategies at Huawei Connect 2019

During the fourth annual Huawei Connect AI Products and Services at Huawei; Jack the enterprise market. The increasing
conference, a global industry event Jia, General Manager of EI Product scale of interconnectivity and maturing
organized by Huawei, the company Department - Cloud BU, Huawei; Bazmi R. intelligent technologies are bringing
reaffirmed its commitment and plans to Husain, CTO of ABB; Li Jianhang, COO of disruptive changes to enterprises around
drive digital transformation on a global Tongfang, and Liu Wenhuan, Chairman of the world. By adding AI capabilities to the
scale. Huawei’s Deputy Chairman, Ken Hu, Wuhan Deepin Technology. During the next-generation of ICT products, Huawei
called for individuals and organizations to event, Huawei announced its latest strives to constantly lead innovation and
join Huawei in addressing issues related to strategy for the computing market, which help customers address a new round of
healthcare, education, development and will focus on four key areas: architecture digital transformation challenges to
the environment, with the ambition of innovation; investment in all-scenario achieve business success. Its latest
using its TECH4ALL platform to help processors; clear business boundaries, solutions include a three-layer AI
another 500 million people benefit from and building an open ecosystem. The latter architecture based on the Engine AI Turbo
digital technology in the next five years. will see Huawei invest US$1.5 billion in its product series, the iMaster NCE
Huawei Connect 2019 was held under the developer program with the aim to expand autonomous driving network management
theme of ‘Building a Fully Connected, support to five million developers, enabling and control system, and the industry’s first
Intelligent World’, and saw industry peers worldwide partners to develop the next iMaster NAIE network AI platform. In
gather from September 18-20 to discuss generation of intelligent applications and addition, Huawei also released a new-
some of the sector’s biggest topics. These solutions. The newly-released Atlas 900, generation OceanStor Dorado intelligent
included digital development, artificial the world’s fastest AI training cluster, all-flash storage based on Kunpeng and
intelligence (AI), and the expansion of builds upon the technical strengths that Ascend processors, Huawei OptiXtrans
cloud services in a connected world. The Huawei has developed over the last DC908, the industry’s first intelligent data
conference comes at a time when spending decade. A powerhouse of AI computing, center interconnect (DCI) product, and
on digital transformation in the Middle Atlas 900 combines the power of more. During its presentations on
East, Turkey, and Africa region is predicted thousands of Ascend processors and will Empowering Converged Data Infrastructure
to cross the $25 billion mark this year – bring new possibilities to different fields of with Kunpeng, Huawei proposed three
according to IDC –as more organizations scientific research and business innovation intelligent solutions for converged data
experiment with technologies to spur – anything from astronomy, weather infrastructure powered by Ascend and
innovation and boost customer experience. forecasting, autonomous driving, to oil Kunpeng processors: data lakes, Storage-
“Digital technology is reshaping the world,” exploration. Huawei launched its latest computing synergy and data edges.
said Ken Hu, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman. Atlas series of products and 43 cloud Huawei and industry partners also
“We want it to benefit everyone and we services based on Ascend processors with announced the establishment of a
want digital inclusion for all. We want to powerful computing capabilities. Through Database Industry Working Group based
protect vulnerable groups and make these services, Huawei aims to provide on the Kunpeng Intelligent Data Industry
ordinary people extraordinary. This is the superior computing power to make cloud Alliance. The group will launch the
unique value of technology. Digital computing and intelligence available to GaussDB Golden Seeds Development
inclusion will need the joint efforts of everyone. The new services are available Program for Academia to promote the
businesses, governments, and society at to unleash outstanding computing power database industry ecosystem. Huawei
large. Currently, we have just made the first and enable inclusive AI. The Atlas 900 AI reveals Intelligent Campus Ecosystem
step. We welcome more people and cluster, Atlas 300 AI training card, and Plan, collaborating with the industry to win
organizations to join us.” During the event, Atlas 800 AI training server are among the a trillion-yuan market Huawei introduced
Huawei announced several new AI and products to have attained the pinnacle of its Intelligent Campus Ecosystem Plan and
cloud solutions that will contribute to the computing power across the globe. The the intelligent HiCampus solution jointly
company’s vision for digital inclusion, and services launched are built on Ascend 910 developed with partners for enterprise
help its customers and partners in the and Ascend 310, and tailored to scenarios customers. The announcement came
Middle East and beyond to embrace digital such as AI data inference, AI data training, during an intelligent campus summit
transformation. The event also saw several image processing, knowledge computing, themed around bringing digital to every
senior representatives from Huawei and its and autonomous driving training. As a campus for pervasive intelligence. To
partners deliver keynote speeches, result of continuous innovation, Huawei address the needs of this fast-growing
including Hou Jinlong, President of Cloud Cloud now offers high-performance and market, Huawei has worked with its
and AI Products and Services at Huawei; cost-effective AI services to a wide range partners to develop HiCampus, an
Dr. Helmut Michael Ma, President of of industries for inclusive AI for all. Huawei integrated intelligent campus solution
Intelligent Computing Business Dept at also unveiled its next-generation intelligent based on the Huawei Horizon Digital
Huawei; Patrick Zhang, CTO of Cloud and product strategy and new + AI products for Platform. The platform is developed based

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