Yangpu's tropical rainforest ecology, featuring the coordinated development of industries, industry chains and industry clusters, is helping a growing number of outstanding companies stand out and thrive, and promoting the industrialization of more research findings.

Wielding the "golden shovel" of "cloud native" in the forefront of the global open source community - Yangpu-based DaoCloud Network Technology Co., Ltd. (DaoCloud) appeared at a world top open source conference. Through ten topics and three exhibition areas, DaoCloud shared its insights in AI, network, storage, multi-cluster and other fields, and it was the biggest contributor of topics from the Asia-Pacific region. Measuring electricity with light, taking technological innovation as the core driving force - At the recent SEMICON CHINA, the core products brought by Yangpu-based Aspiring drew great attention. A seamless combination of Aspiring's innovative non-linear light source technology and its self-developed sensors has shown its tremendous potential value and competitiveness.

Relying on the advantage of agglomeration of regional innovation elements, Yangpu has continuously improved the business environment, and provided companies with lifecycle policy support and services for technological innovation, technological finance and talent training. It has developed chains with companies and clusters with chains, sped up the development of new quality productive forces, and made innovations on the most fertile land.

Wielding the "golden shovel" of "cloud native" in the forefront of the global open source community

Now, generative artificial intelligence is booming in various industries and large models often need intense training. Cloud-native scheduling has become the only way to ensure sufficient computing power. It is predicted that by 2025, more than 95% of new digital business will be deployed on cloud-native platforms.

Open-source, which refers to open sharing of technology, is an indispensable "nutrient" for innovation. At the world leading open source conference - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in March 2024, DaoCloud shared its insights in AI, network, storage, multi-cluster and other fields through ten topics and three exhibition areas.

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DaoCloud was founded in Yangpu in 2014. The company's founder and CEO - Chen Qiyan, often compares DaoCloud to a ship sailing in the "cloud-native" ocean.

KubeCon EU 2024 collected a total of 2,541 topics, but only 9% of them made it to the final after selections. DaoCloud stood out with 10 topics that cover all aspects of Cloud Native + AI, including Open Source Governance of Core Projects: Take K8s for Example, Monitoring Enhancement: Contextual and Structured Logging, Multi-Cluster Deployment: Enhancing Reliability, etc., receiving a warm response provoking heated discussions at the conference. As a result, DaoCloud was the biggest contributor of topics from the Asia-Pacific region.

The term cloud native sounds familiar, but ordinary people have limited knowledge of it. Cloud native is a new methodology of software development and deployment, which can maximize the elasticity and distributed advantage of cloud platforms, to enable rapid application development and deployment for companies, and to improve their business agility and scalability, thereby reducing their IT costs and resource consumption, according to Chen.

Cloud-native development is more than just "sitting pontificating". KubeCon EU 2024 featured a number of exhibition areas for in-depth communication and collaboration between companies and attendees.

After the opening of the solution area, attendees from more than 40 countries and dozens of industries around the world flocked to DaoCloud's booth for lively interactive discussions on the development of cloud native, as well as DaoCloud's core products, typical cases and cooperation direction. The booth also offered traditional games such as Hua Rong Dao (Klotski) and crossword puzzle, creating a brain storm on the spot.

DaoCloud took this opportunity to expand it overseas business. On March 18, DaoCloud's experts visited Axians in France, where the two sides discussed the prospect of technology and the direction of cooperation. Then, DaoCloud and Axians Cloud Service Provider (ACSP) announced a strategic partnership to jointly promote the technological innovation and market expansion of cloud services. Under the deal, DaoCloud will provide professional technical solutions and counseling in support of the rapid growth of ACSP's business. Besides, the two sides will deepen cooperation in technical training, knowledge transfer, open source contribution, etc., to further enhance the global influence of the technical brands of both sides, and ACSP will prioritize DaoCloud's products in its business growth and market expansion, to help DaoCloud develop the French and European markets.

It is no accident that DaoCloud is breaking new ground globally. Since its founding, DaoCloud has been active in the global open source community. Over the past year, It was ranked third globally in terms of cumulative contribution to Kubernetes. As the only company in the Asia-Pacific Asia to be selected into the steering committees of Kubernetes and Istio, it has taken the first step for Chinese to get into the core of open source.

So far DaoCloud has open-sourced more than 10 projects, 8 of which have entered the landscape of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and 4 of which have been accepted as incubation projects by CNCF. From a "bystander" at the beginning of its accession to CNCF to a "leader" now, DaoCloud has achieved a great leap in status in the open source community.

Envisioning a more digital and intelligent world, getting involved in the building of it

"Together we'll deliver innovative solutions to drive success in cloud services," said Zhang Hongbing, COO of DaoCloud, who was envisioning a more digital and intelligent world and getting involved in the building of it, a goal DaoCloud has been working towards.

Recently, DaoCloud, a national "little giant" firm, made a stir by launching its computing power brand - d.run in M + Yiyuan, "Computing power is actually computing benefit. We'll achieve breakthroughs on problems, turn computing power into computing benefit, and make great strides towards computing freedom…" In his speech at the launch conference, Chen expressed his expectation for computing freedom.

Yangpu has updated the reform program for business environment improvement annually and released the seventh edition this year. Also this year, DaoCloud in the "ocean" of cloud native celebrated its 10th anniversary in Yangpu and launched its new computing power brand for computing freedom.

The century-old universities boast galaxies of talents, a number of rail transit lines cross this place, Wujiaochang, Daxue Road and Yangpu Riverside are flourishing, and the settlement of leading companies has drawn hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. With "upstream and downstream companies working together and resources that cover whole industry chains converging there, Yangpu is seeing a boom in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Amid the boom, DaoCloud is wielding the "golden shovel" of "cloud native" in the forefront of the global open source community, seeking the best overall solutions for the digital world.

Measuring electricity with light, taking technological innovation as the core driving force

As an important part of Yangpu's digital economy industry system, the semiconductor is of great significance to promoting the upgrading of industrial segments such as AI and precision equipment.

Shanghai Aspiring Semiconductor Devices Co., Ltd. (Aspiring) was founded in 2021. In the ever-changing market competition in the global semiconductor industry, Aspiring has not only been in the forefront of technology at home, but also shown the innovative strength of Chinese companies in the world.

"Our core competitiveness is our mastery of the second harmonic wafer inspection technology, which can improve inspection speed while ensuring inspection accuracy as a more precise means of product quality control for customers," said the founder Huang Chongji.

At the recent SEMICON CHINA, Aspiring brought two core products: ASPIRER 3000 and BRAVERY 3000.

The ASPIRER 3000 nonlinear optical wafer defect inspection system, featuring a seamless combination of Aspiring's innovative non-linear light source technology and self-developed sensors, provides wafer-level defect inspection, comprehensive testing and analysis of film quality and interfacial state, yield stability monitoring, and online monitoring of advanced processes. The device is in operation, showing its tremendous potential value and competitiveness.

"Seeing the fact that China is relying on imported semiconductor measurement and testing equipment, we hope to break the industry's limitations through innovation," said Huang. Huang, born in the 1990s, has been keen on electronic products since childhood. During his studies in the U.S., he developed a strong interest in optics. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he conducted research on ultrafast laser and materials, pursued a doctorate and delved into optical technology. Technological innovation is the core driving force of the company, and the innovative method of detecting electricity with light has realized online, non-destructive electrical performance detection, becoming a highlight in the industry, according to him.

Aspiring has promoted the iterative updating of technologies and products over the past three years since its founding, and settled in Changyang Campus in 2022. Thanks to the park's outstanding entrepreneurial environment and convenient supporting services, Aspiring has achieved rapid development. "Changyang Campus has not only provided physical space and resources for us, but also created a highly integrated ecosystem of mutual support for our growth and expansion," said Huang.

From local technological breakthroughs to comprehensive technological innovation, and then to rapid market expansion, Aspiring has completed its first important step from "0 to 1".

Yangpu has developed chains with companies and clusters with chains. In March, the 2nd Aspiring Semiconductor Industry Summit was held in Yangpu. This event, which coincided with the 3rd anniversary of the establishment of Aspiring in Yangpu, brought together representatives of more than 40 model industrial companies and 30 representatives of investment & financing institutions from around the country, with the participation of more than 200 upstream and downstream AI companies in a wide range of fields such as AI chips, cloud computing platforms and big data resources. A tropical rainforest ecology for innovation and entrepreneurship, which features the coordinated development of industries, industry chains and industry clusters, is taking shape in Yangpu. In the future, Yangpu will spare no efforts to create an active industrial ecology and a first-class business environment, to help outstanding companies stand out and thrive, and promote the industrialization of more research findings.

With the strong support of Yangpu, Aspiring is aiming to achieve a further leap from "1 to 10" by expanding its market share, stepping up its operation and arousing more innovation vitality on this fertile land. Based in Yangpu, it will endeavor to develop into a world-renowned innovative manufacturer of measurement and testing equipment at the forefront of the industry.