Inspur Information released its annual performance report on the evening of April 19, Inspur Information achieved operating income of 65.867 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 5.41%, and the main reason for the decline in Inspur Information's operating income in 2023 is the impact of factors such as the tight supply of global GPU and related special chips.
The net profit attributable to the parent company was 1.783 billion yuan, down 14.54% year-on-year, and the basic earnings per share was 1.18 yuan.123. In addition, Inspur Information also plans to distribute a dividend of 1.3 yuan 123 for every 10 shares. These data show that although Inspur Information is facing certain performance pressure in 2023, the company still maintains a certain profitability and dividend capacity.
Figure: Inspur Information's 2023 annual report
R&D investment reached 3.14 billion yuan
Inspur Information will perform positively in R&D investment and new product development in 2023. Inspur Information's R&D investment will reach 3.14 billion yuan in 2023. In the context of the reduction of revenue and net profit, Inspur Information's R&D investment will be slightly restrained in 2023, down 14.51% year-on-year, but as a high-tech enterprise, attaching importance to R&D is the development strategy that Inspur Information has always adhered to.
In the annual board of directors business review, it was mentioned that the company continued to increase R&D investment, introduce and cultivate core technology leaders, and strengthen the construction of R&D team. Figure: Inspur Information's 2023 annual report
In terms of new product development, Inspur Information will release a new generation of G7 computing platform in 2023, covering 46 new products for cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other application scenarios. These new products use the most advanced computing, storage and interconnection technologies, showing the achievements of Inspur Information in product technology innovation. In addition, Inspur Information has also released a new generation of open acceleration AI server NF5698G7 AIStation artificial intelligence platform that supports multi-chip management and scheduling, and 2U disk control integrated NVMe all-flash new product HF5000G6/HF6000G63033, which are the concrete embodiment of the company's new product development.
Inspur Information has significantly increased its R&D investment in 2023, and has achieved rich results in new product development, including the release of a new generation of computing power platform, AI server, all-flash storage solution, etc., demonstrating the company's strong strength and positive attitude in technological innovation and product research and development.
The main competitors faced by Inspur include a number of domestic and foreign enterprises. Foreign competitors mainly include IBM, HP, DELL, etc., while domestic competitors include Sugon, Huawei, etc. In addition, Xinhua III is also an important competitor of Inspur Information in the layout of server products.
In terms of market challenges, Inspur Information needs to face increasing competitive pressure, and how to maintain its leading position is a major challenge. With the continuous development of the market and the continuous advancement of technology, Inspur Information will continue to face multiple challenges and opportunities.
Strengthen the empowerment of artificial intelligence
Inspur's business development strategy and future planning in 2023 are mainly focused on strengthening the empowerment of artificial intelligence (AI) and promoting the development of the digital economy. Specifically, Inspur Information put forward the "development of artificial intelligence +", and emphasized three core directions: application-oriented, system-oriented, focusing on stimulating innovation vitality, expanding innovation paths, and accelerating the 586162 of innovation landing. This shows that Inspur Information is committed to promoting the intelligent transformation of all walks of life through the application and development of artificial intelligence technology, so that artificial intelligence can become the productivity of all walks of life.
In addition, Inspur Information has also implemented four major transformation actions, including EPAI-driven change, accelerating industry AI, deepening distribution value transformation, and building a "partner smart cabin". These measures aim to comprehensively enhance the artificial intelligence + innovation power of Metabrain partners and jointly promote the intelligent transformation of industry customers.
Recently, Inspur Information cooperated with Intel to release an AI general server, which can run a large model with hundreds of billions of parameters. The server NF8260G7 supports 4 Intel Xeon processors, AI acceleration with advanced matrix extensions, 1200GB/s memory bandwidth, and a bus transfer rate of up to 16GT/s to meet low latency requirements. The latest AMX feature enables the CPU to optimize deep learning training and inference workloads, improving model response times by up to 2.7x. NF8260G7 supports 16TB of memory capacity and 12 PCIe 5.0 expansions, improving network performance by more than 20%, and providing generative AI with the inference and fine-tuning capabilities of models with a larger number of parameters.
From a broader perspective, Inspur Group, as the parent company of Inspur Information, is also actively implementing the "three-wheel drive" strategy of hardware, software and cloud computing services to help build a strong digital province in Digital China and Shandong. This shows that both Inspur Information and its parent company are actively promoting the development of innovation and transformation and accelerating the pace of development of the digital economy.