Lenovo's Chen Zhenkuan: Work with ecosystem partners to build a complete ecosystem and lay a solid foundation for intelligent transformation

At the Lenovo Tech World 2024 held on April 18, Lenovo Group Vice President and General Manager of China Infrastructure Business Group Chen Zhenkuan officially launched the Lenovo Wanquan Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Platform and initiated the establishment of the Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Industry Ecological Alliance. In an interview with the media, Chen Zhenkuan said that based on the "one horizontal and five vertical" strategic layout, Lenovo's AI-oriented infrastructure will be fully integrated with the Lenovo Wanquan Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Platform, and will work with partners of the Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Industry Ecological Alliance to jointly promote the prosperity, development and innovation of China's intelligent computing ecosystem.

Chen Zhenkuan, Vice President of Lenovo Group and General Manager of China Infrastructure Business Group

In the AI ​​1.0 era represented by deep learning, Lenovo has helped Chinese customers gain development opportunities through a complete infrastructure portfolio. With strong technical accumulation and innovation capabilities, Lenovo created the "Lenovo Wentian" localized server brand in February last year. With the support of the server dual-brand strategy, "Lenovo Wentian" is endowed with the ability of "global wisdom + local innovation". Based on the forward-looking layout of intelligent transformation, in August of the same year, Lenovo released the Lenovo Infrastructure Business Strategy at the China Computing Conference, namely "AI Intelligence, Green Empowerment", to create AI-oriented infrastructure.

Entering the AI ​​2.0 era, the powerful generalization and generation capabilities of large models are driving artificial intelligence to more diverse application scenarios and deeper business processes, driving the rapid development of China's intelligent computing industry. Chen Zhenkuan said that in the AI ​​2.0 era with large models as its basic feature, we are facing a changing market environment and need to continuously evolve our core capabilities, continuously create core technologies that meet the needs of artificial intelligence and intelligent computing, and provide an AI-oriented infrastructure product portfolio.

"The layout of 'one horizontal and five verticals' is a further upgrade based on the server dual-brand strategy and Lenovo's 'full-stack AI' strategy. Based on the upgrade of the five major products to AI, coupled with the Lenovo Wanquan heterogeneous intelligent computing platform, this fully reflects the core competitiveness of Lenovo's AI infrastructure." Chen Zhenkuan introduced Lenovo's "one horizontal and five verticals" strategic layout, namely the Lenovo Wanquan heterogeneous intelligent computing platform, as well as servers, storage, data networks, software and hyper-convergence, and edge infrastructure products and solutions. The Lenovo Wanquan heterogeneous intelligent computing platform will be fully integrated with the five major products to help enterprises build a solid foundation and provide solid and reliable support for intelligent transformation.

According to reports, Lenovo Wanquan Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Platform has five major technological innovations, namely: a computing power matching cube that intelligently matches computing power to users; a GPU kernel state that approaches the GPU computing power limit and Lenovo collective communication algorithm library that improves network communication efficiency; AI efficient breakpoint resumption training technology that reduces AI training interruption time; and an AI and HPC cluster super scheduler.

Standing at the crossroads of the current rapid development of AI, Chen Zhenkuan believes that China has become a highland for AI innovation and application, and AI is an important engine for developing new quality productivity. The flourishing AI applications require a complete AI ecosystem. Each level in the ecosystem has very high barriers and requires continuous and large investments to achieve innovation. As a member of the infrastructure layer of the ecosystem, Lenovo is focusing on three core areas to improve AI-oriented infrastructure.

To this end, Lenovo initiated the establishment of the Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Industry Ecosystem Alliance. The advantage of this alliance is that Lenovo can take on the responsibility of a chain leader and work together with upstream and downstream of the intelligent computing industry to allow new and old partners to work together and leverage their strengths under a unified goal and environment system, moving towards a common goal, jointly promoting the large-scale implementation of artificial intelligence, and jointly promoting the prosperity and development of China's intelligent computing industry.

"The rapid and prosperous development of the intelligent computing industry is inseparable from the hard work and continuous innovation of every enterprise in the artificial intelligence industry. Lenovo will continue to uphold the concept of win-win cooperation and is willing to work with many outstanding partners to increase resource investment, deepen scenarios, and polish products to provide a solid foundation for the vigorous development of China's intelligent computing industry." Chen Zhenkuan said that in the future, Lenovo will continue to strengthen cooperation with ecological partners, jointly invest, persist in innovation, and continuously upgrade its strength to unleash the unlimited potential of AI and accelerate China's intelligent transformation.