2024 Intel China Academic Summit: Focus on green computing and promote industry-university integration

Every technological breakthrough inspires people's infinite imagination about the future. To make these technologies move from theory to reality, a key link is to transform concepts into concrete practices, explore their application potential in different fields, and create products or solutions that are both innovative and scalable and commercial, so as to promote the development of the industry and the progress of society.

Today, the 2024 Intel China Academic Summit kicked off in Ningbo. The theme of this event, "Intel IN, Co-creation of Infinite Realms", emphasized the infinite possibilities of industry-university integration in the intelligent era . The Intel China Academic Summit has always paid attention to technology trends and hot spots. In the context of high energy efficiency and sustainable computing power growth becoming the "pain point" of the industry, green computing has become the focus of this year's event. Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Tsinghua University, Liu Sheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, dean of the School of Power and Mechanical Engineering of Wuhan University and executive dean of the Academy of Industrial Sciences, and Zhang Guoqi, academician of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering, and other guests attended the summit.

Song Jiqiang, Vice President of Intel Research Institute and Director of Intel China Research Institute, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Accelerating Convergence Innovation and Opening a Digital Future" , sharing Intel's methodology and technological progress in exploring green computing. Song Jiqiang said that Intel is currently working together in four dimensions to promote the comprehensive improvement of intelligent computing supply-side technology to meet the expectations of digital transformation for sustainable computing power: the evolution of semiconductor processes and advanced packaging technologies; innovation and performance optimization of hardware architecture, such as neuromorphic computing technology; future-oriented terminal-edge-cloud architecture, such as promoting terminal intelligence through AI PCs, and further improving the energy efficiency of data centers through technologies such as liquid cooling and silicon photonics; continuous iteration of the functions, performance and application framework of AI algorithms.

Song Jiqiang, Vice President of Intel Research and Director of Intel China Research Institute

Delivered a keynote speech entitled "Accelerating Integration and Innovation to Open up a Digital Future"

In the keynote speech session, experts and scholars including Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Tsinghua University, Zhou Zhihua, vice president of Nanjing University, Shi Luping, director of the Brain-Inspired Computing Research Center of Tsinghua University, Dai Jinquan, academician of Intel and global chief technology officer of Big Data, Wu Yanjun, deputy director and chief engineer of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Qiu Xipeng, professor of Fudan University, also shared their latest research and thoughts on hot industry topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, large models, brain-inspired computing, and open source software.

Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Tsinghua University, delivered a keynote speech

In order to further promote the spirit of openness and cooperation of the Intel China Academic Summit, this summit specially awarded a series of awards. Among them, the team of Zhou Zhihua, Vice President of Nanjing University, and the team of Shi Luping, Director of the Brain-like Computing Research Center of Tsinghua University, won the "Intel China Academic Achievement Award (Excellent Research Direction)", the team of Wu Fei, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Zhejiang University, and the team of Sun Maosong, Executive Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Tsinghua University, won the "Intel China Academic Achievement Award (Excellent Innovation Direction)", Lin Tianlin, Assistant Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), won the "Intel China Outstanding Research Award", and Qu Sheng, Senior Engineer of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the "Intel China Outstanding Innovation Award".

In addition, guests from the industry and academia also had in-depth exchanges and discussions through a number of special technical forums and group meetings. The event also showcased technology demonstrations in multiple fields such as medical care, education, and manufacturing.

Since Intel China held its first academic summit in 2003, it has been committed to building a broad bridge between research and application, promoting the close integration of theory and practice, and promoting in-depth cooperation between industry and academia. After 20 years of working together, Intel and its Chinese partners have grown together and witnessed the burst of innovative sparks and the transformation of cooperative results. Looking to the future, we hope to continue to move forward together and make unremitting efforts, relying on the depth of knowledge and technology research, the breadth of cooperation and on-the-ground exploration, to contribute wisdom and strength to the progress of society and the development of the industry.