By Kate Yuan

China's advanced computing industry is expected to exceed RMB3.5 trillion ($485.1 billion) by 2025 and the indirect industry scale will surpass RMB10 trillion ($1.4 trillion), according to the White Paper on China’s Computing Power Development Index (2022) recently released by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

Advanced computing power has shown structural growth under the diversified digital demands, and it may become the primary focus of the computing power economy in the future, it said.

Advanced computing technology characterized by diversification and integration is embracing a new development wave. Chiplets offer a new direction to improve chip performance; Breakthroughs are accelerating in computing chips; Heterogeneous computing has become the mainstream model; Preliminary exploration starts in cutting-edge computing industrialization.

The White Paper also showed that the rise of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, and the metaverse has driven the rapid growth of global computing power. In 2021, the total computing power of global computing equipment reached 615 EFlops, with a growth rate of 44%, and China’s computing power reached 202 EFlops.

The White Paper predicted that the demand for massive data computing power will change from computing-centric to data-centric computing models, and diversified computing power will set higher requirements for software and hardware adaptation. The core driver of advanced computing is transforming from the Internet to traditional industries.