Industry

Huawei to spend up to 80 billion yuan on self-driving computing over five years

Huawei will invest up to 80 billion yuan over the next five years to expand computing capacity needed to train and test self-driving cars. The spending aims to improve reliability of vehicles using its Qiankun ADS advanced driver-assistance system and to add more customers. An executive said Huawei plans to allocate 18 billion yuan to autonomous driving R&D in 2026. Qiankun ADS has surpassed 10 billion km in cumulative autonomous driving distance.

AI & Enterprise

Elice Group secures four patents for modular data centres

Elice Group said on Thursday it had secured four patents for core technologies related to AI portable modular data centres. The patents cover a server rack moving device and operating method for modular data centres, a fire management system and operating method, an air-cooled cooling system and operating method, and a water-cooled cooling system and operating method for server racks. The company said some technologies are already applied to real infrastructure.