Fifteen cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements made by world-leading internet firms from China and abroad were unveiled at the 2022 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit in Zhejiang province. The release ceremony showcased progress in frontier sections such as 5G/6G networks, IPv6+ protocol, artificial intelligence, operating systems, cyberspace security, supercomputing, high-performance chips, and “digital twins”. This year’s latest advancements bridge many gaps in the internet industry. ODPS, which is a hyperscale big data computing platform from Alibaba Cloud, also made several innovations, including on the reliability of the database. “Its applications cover sectors like industry, energy, medical services and city governance,” said Jiang Jiangwei, a partner of Alibaba Group.
China Unicom’s IPv6+ is also among the avant-garde selections. Based on the IPv6+ technology, a smart data private network was built during the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Beijing. It provided the shortest latency, the highest performance and reliable high-quality service, and strongly supported the 2022 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics, said Liang Baojun, Vice President of China United Network Communications Group Co, during the release ceremony.
Among the foreign winners was the Snapdragon X70 chip from Qualcomm. The company said it is the world’s first 5G AI-enabled processor integrated into a 5G Modem-RF system. Vice President Hou Mingjuan said the processor supports every commercial 5G band from the base 600 MHz up to 41 GHz. Justin Zhao, Deputy General Manager of Microsoft China, said the company’s Azure Digital Twins is a first-party digital twin service. A digital twin is a virtual model that accurately reflects a physical object. The Azure product also provides open platform services that can be integrated with various digital platforms to offer cross-industry and end-to-end digital twin solutions. The 5G Time-Critical Communication Enabled Remote Control system, jointly developed by Ericsson, China Mobile and Tencent Cloud, provides a bounded latency guarantee mechanism for delay-sensitive applications, said Fang Ying, President of Ericsson China.
The achievements were selected from a pool of 257 projects through voting by a team of experts from China and abroad. The 15 best scientific and technological achievements are from China Unicom, China Telecom, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Huawei, Kaspersky, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Loongson Technology, Ant Group, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Zhejiang University, the China Daily reports.
