Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) 49 the annual report of 2021 was released. During the reporting period, the operating income was 67.048 billion yuan, an increase of 6.36% year-on-year, and the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the listed company was 2.003 billion yuan, an increase of 36.57% year-on-year, with a basic earnings per share of 1.38 yuan. The company plans to distribute a cash dividend of 1.40 yuan (including tax) to all shareholders for every 10 shares.
Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) is the world's leading provider of new IT infrastructure products, solutions and services. With "smart computing" as the strategy, through "hardware reconfiguration + software definition" computing products and solutions, build an open and integrated computing ecosystem, build a smart computing platform that meets diversified scenarios for customers, and comprehensively promote artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing The wide application of Internet of things and the digital transformation and reconstruction of traditional industries. By continuously improving the server software and hardware R & D system based on customer needs, the company has formed a series of cloud computing IAAs layer products with independent intellectual property rights and covering all types of high, medium and low-end servers. At the same time, the company is in a global leading position in the fields of server, AI computing and open computing, leading the development of AI industrialization, AI industrialization, intelligent computing new infrastructure and other fields.
Paying attention to technology research and development is the premise of the company's past performance and the basis for continued rapid growth in the future. From developing China's first minicomputer server smp2000 to becoming the world's top two server suppliers, mastering core technology and changing the competition pattern has always been the core of the company's corporate culture. The company continues to develop intelligent computing technology system with big computing power and big model as the core. In 2021, the company invested 2.833 billion yuan in R & D, with a year-on-year increase of 11.79%, accounting for 4.22% of operating revenue. The company has made significant progress in the integration architecture technology, proposed a computing centric computing architecture, and realized the cache consistency and high-speed bus interconnection between CPU and accelerator within the node. Based on this technology, the company has developed China's first accelerator supporting high-speed computing connection consistency bus. The average data access delay between CPU and accelerator can be reduced by 80%, and the data access delay between nodes can be as low as sub microsecond.
During the reporting period, facing the opportunity of digital transformation of the main economic battlefield, the company continued to focus on Intelligent Computing represented by cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, defined the industry development trend from computing to intelligent computing, adhered to the strategy of "openness, integration and Agility", continued to innovate in R & D, production, delivery and service modes, and maintained a rapid growth momentum in all businesses. In addition, in the field of general computing, the M6 server newly released by Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) in 2021 has broken 165 spec world performance test records and won five track titles, including the most universal spec CPU cint, specjbb enterprise Java application and spec power industry energy consumption evaluation Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) 's AI server products won 44 first places in the world's authoritative AI benchmark mlperftm in 2021, ranking first in the mlperftm championship in 2021. According to the latest data from IDC, Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) 's server products ranked second in the world in 2021 and continued to lead the Chinese market with a market share of 30% +. According to Gartner's latest data, Inspur storage ranked among the top five in the world in sales in 2021 and ranked second in the world's second storage market. Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) has been selected as the challenger of Gartner's main storage Magic Quadrant for two consecutive years.
The company seizes the opportunity of smart new infrastructure industry to achieve growth. The company is at the forefront of the industry in the field of artificial intelligence. While breaking through the core technology of AI, the company has completed the business layout at four levels: hardware, platform, management and framework. In 2021, the company took the lead in the layout of Intelligent Computing Center business, and further strengthened the construction of product system and industrial ecology around the four key operation links of AI computing power production, aggregation, scheduling and release. It is also a leader in market performance. According to the latest data released by IDC, from 2017 to the first half of 2021, the company's AI server ranked first in the Chinese market and maintained its position as a leader in smart computing. In the report of the Forrester wave: AI infrastructure, Q4 2021 released by the international authoritative analysis agency Forrester, the company is in the quadrant of outstanding challenger with the ability of AI stack.
Cloud computing transformation is still the biggest growth opportunity in the global server market in the past few years. The company is not only the biggest beneficiary of cloud server, but also the world's largest cloud server supplier. According to the tracking report of China's edge computing server market in the first half of 2021 released by IDC, Inspur edge dedicated servers ranked first in the Chinese market with a market share of 49.4% in the first half of 2021.
The company said that Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.Ltd(000977) 's rapid development achievements benefited from the company's forward-looking judgment on the computing industry, actively implementing the smart computing strategy, taking the lead in the layout of artificial intelligence, edge and other technical fields, as well as the continuous and deep cultivation in the field of smart computing based on products, technology and ecology. At present, smart computing has become the core productivity to promote the development of digital economy and social change. As a leading smart computing enterprise in the world, Inspur will continue to improve and strengthen the product technology layout based on the principle of openness and open source, actively develop open computing and AI, provide computing support for smart computing centers, develop deeper and wider in computing infrastructure, help enterprises' digital transformation, and capture new opportunities, Inject infinite wisdom and vitality into the digital economy and jointly draw a beautiful blueprint under the new pattern.
