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On January 10, 2025, the Global Computing Consortium (GCC) hosted the 2025 Computing Global Conference - GCC Debut in Shenzhen, under the theme "Empowering the Digital and Intelligent Society Through State-of-the-Art Computing". The conference brought together over 300 computing academicians, experts, and industry leaders from around the world to explore ways to propel the global computing industry forward.
At the conference, Yang Baochuan, a Technical Committee (TC) member of the GCC, was interviewed exclusively by Xinhuanet. He provided insights into computing industry trends and the technical contributions the GCC can make.
"Over the next two decades, the development of computing technology will focus on data," said Yang.
Yang expressed his commitment to staying abreast of technological trends and contributing to technology planning and standardization. He also emphasized that the TC, as the core technical team of the GCC, should drive the implementation and application of technologies by building consensus, managing the standards system, and enhancing collaboration across the computing industry's chip, hardware, basic software, and application software segments.
Yang Baochuan, a TC member of the GCC
The global computing industry is developing rapidly and has entered a new era of data-driven intelligence, where AI is comprehensively reshaping the industry landscape. Yang noted that this transformation presents unparalleled development opportunities for the computing industry. In the new intelligent era, the computing infrastructure underpinning AI services has become crucial for industry transformation. It significantly improves AI operational efficiency and enables numerous new applications, including natural language processing (NLP), text-to-multimodal generation, and physical world simulation. These emerging applications will unlock huge development potential for AI-specific chips, algorithms, and software operating systems. In light of this, the TC will collaborate with GCC members and partners to technically steer the computing industry towards healthy and efficient growth, according to Yang.
"With AI moving from a boom phase to maturity, establishing standards is crucial for accelerating and safeguarding this transition," said Yang.
Yang predicted that AI is in the initial stage of its boom and will need some time to fully merge into various industries and everyday life. "The AI wave will affect enterprises and individuals as profoundly as the Industrial Revolution. Computing power is expected to grow tenfold every 12 to 18 months." Yang noted that this growth far exceeds the pace defined by Moore's Law, and the point at which it will hit a bottleneck depends on advancements in computing power, large-scale cluster technologies, and algorithms. Yang emphasized that the TC must clearly understand technology trends and develop new computing paradigms aligned with AI development requirements. Additionally, the committee should set technical standards, such as for numerical formats, interconnection buses, and confidential computing, to reach industry-wide consensus, thereby guiding AI progress and providing concrete benefits to the computing sector.
With ongoing advancements in AI and the continued efforts of the GCC, a more intelligent and promising future is approaching. The TC will harness its strengths in technology, ecosystem, and industry to usher in a new era of intelligent computing alongside global partners, concluded Yang.
