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The Chinese provider of computing platforms and application platforms, ON as well as the largest China manufacturer of servers and software applications for them. Inspur ranks 268th among the Top 500 largest enterprises (China September 2014), holds fifth place in the world and first place in China in terms of server sales. Inspur is a state-owned joint stock company that was established in Shanghai in 1945 and moved to Qinan (Shandong Province) in 1960, where its headquarters are still located. The company has 39 regional offices around the world.
As of August 2014, more than 11 thousand employees work in 12 Inspur technology parks and production parks. The company also owns 3 enterprises whose shares are listed on the exchanges of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
According to Inspur, in 2013 it took second place among Chinese IT enterprises, first place among software companies of its own brands and third place in the top 500 of the most powerful Chinese corporations in terms of competitiveness.
Inspur Group is not only a manufacturer of software and hardware, including start-up servers, scalable storage and supercomputers, but also one of the largest providers of cloud services, a developer of Smart Safe City solutions, Urban Intelligent Traffic Management System, Regional Health System, Car Weighing Checkpoints, Tax Control, Electronic University. In addition, the company specializes in the construction of data centers: at the moment, ten industrial parks located both in China and in other countries have been commissioned.
Inspur's software products and servers have been successfully implemented in a large number of projects in the fields of education and science, medicine, telecommunications and satellite communications around the world. The Tianhe-2 supercomputer, designed with the participation of the company, ranks first in the global ranking of the Top-500 most powerful supercomputers.
Performance indicators
Inspur's revenue in 2010 amounted to more than $5 billion.
In 2011, the company earned $5.6 billion, in 2012 - $6.5 billion.
Inspur's turnover in 2013 amounted to 7.5 billion. dollars
According to Gartner, in the 1st quarter of 2014, Inspur took first place in server deliveries in China and fifth in the world. The company also entered the top ten fastest growing companies in the world in this segment, increasing shipments by 288.7% year-on-year.
In terms of vertical markets, as of the 1st quarter of 2014, Inspur occupies in the home market a share of more than 40% in the supply of servers to companies engaged in the Internet industry. According to representatives of Inspur, their company also began to develop business in a number of other segments, where American server manufacturers traditionally lead.
Gartner calculated that according to the results of the 1st quarter of 2014, local server suppliers in China occupied more than 60% of the market, while the share of American manufacturers - IBM, HP and Dell - decreased from 49% a year ago to 38% year on year.
2020: World Server Market Share - 9.7%
Inspur's share in the global server market was 9.7% (IDC data ). More details here.
Products and Services
There are three groups within the company:
- Systems and Technology Group (developing servers, storage, IB products )
- Software and Services Group (ERP systems, platform and industry software, outsourcing)
- Semiconductor group (chipsets, LED technologies, mobile communications technologies).
Inspur calls its competitive directions in the global market:
- System IT solutions - Deliver servers, storage hardware, secure IT and software solutions, build server platforms, data centers, supercomputer centers, and complete complex integration projects.
- Cloud Computing Development: Building a Lab and Cloud Computing Center.
- Energy-saving, low-carbon and green LED industry: from the supply of LED epitaxial materials, chipsets, assembled LED lamps and laser devices to the creation of a LED production plant.
- Special purpose computers for use in difficult or special conditions. Their main customers are the army, social security agencies and others.
- Intelligence terminals, self-service terminals and digital TV subscriber receivers.
Foreign business
As of 2014, Inspur's international business is represented in more than 20 countries. Among the foreign projects of the company is the creation of a data center at the Academy of Sciences of Saudi Arabia and for the State Tax Administration of Zimbabwe.
In Venezuela, Inspur, together with the local government, created a computer technology company, which became the third largest in South America.
Business in Russia
A separate article is available on Inspur's activities in Russia on TAdviser.
History
2020: Stop shipping Intel processors
In early July 2020, it became known about the termination of the supply of Intel processors to Inspur. This happened after the US authorities tightened export restrictions.
Since June 29 , two new rules of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the US Department of Commerce have entered into force, which further limit the potential export of sensitive technologies to Russia, China and Venezuela. As a result, a list of 20 companies was compiled (among them Inspur), which, according to the authorities, have close ties with the military, and therefore limited purchases of American technology.
Intel must comply with these requirements and suspend cooperation with Inspur. This can hurt the business of a Chinese company, given that Intel is its largest supplier. In 2019, Inspur purchased components worth 17.89 billion yuan ($2.53 billion) from an American manufacturer, according to China Daily, citing Inspur's financial statements.
Intel and Inspur themselves hope to resume cooperation soon. If companies do this quickly, then the Chinese company will not be undermined, given that, like many other server manufacturers, it purchases components for the future in order to be prepared for supply disruptions and other unforeseen situations.
Inspur was supposed to stock up on components, given the demand for cloud services during the period of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, said Xiang Ligang, head of the Information Consumption Alliance, which protects the interests of participants in the telecommunications industry.
Bai Ming, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, notes that the US government is using all means to undermine normal business cooperation at the international level.[1]
2010-2014
2010 - Inspur proposed the idea of an industry cloud and promoted China's first autonomous cloud management system.
2013 - Inspur released an advanced powerful Tianso K1 server, positioned as a full replacement for foreign counterparts in the financial, telecommunications, state, energy and other sectors. After the Chinese government called for banks replacing servers IBM the Chinese manufacturers used by them with servers, Inspur began to actively supply Tianso K1 to financial organizations.
2014 - IBM and Chinese Inspur entered into a partnership agreement under which the American company will help the Chinese side design servers based on its Power processor, and Inspur will offer IBM software products - DB2 DBMS and the WebSphere Application Server system on its own K1 servers.
2005-2009
2005 - 64-bit Inspur server received a state award for technological progress.
2007 - Inspur created a state laboratory of highly efficient servers and storage.
2009 - As part of China's 863 state program to support technology development to ensure independence from foreign suppliers, Inspur has developed a high-performance, fault-tolerant Tianso server. In addition to him, the company completed a number of other developments as part of the program.
1983-1993
1983 - The first Inspur PC was created in the Chinese city of Jinan. The company calls this a new development point for the Chinese IT industry: "three PC manufacturers, including Inspur, are leading the Chinese PC industry in a new prosperous era."
1990 - Inspur produced the world's first pager in Chinese and developed the world's first standard for paging Chinese characters, which is still preserved.
1993 - Inspur technicians in Singapore developed the first small Chinese server. Over the next ten years, Inspur has overcome the long-standing monopoly of foreign server manufacturers in China. Since 1996, the Inspur server has become the No. 1 brand among domestic servers.
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