China Telecom's 2024-2025 Server Centralized Procurement Project with a Large Proportion of Domestically-Produced Servers

TapTechNews July 8th news, on July 5th, the centralized prequalification announcement of China Telecom's server (2024-2025) centralized procurement project was released. In this centralized procurement project, there are a total of 13 bid packages, and the estimated purchase volume is 156,000 units.

Among them, the number of G series (domestically-produced series) reaches 105,300 units, accounting for 67.5%, breaking through the half-mark and reaching a historical high.

TapTechNews summarizes the information of the procurement bid packages as follows:

Bid package 1: General-purpose server (A series) 40,705 units

Bid package 2: GPU server (A series) 6,295 units

Bid package 3: General-purpose server (B series) 3,700 units

Bid package 4: ARM-A server (G series) 63,163 units

Bid package 5: ARM-B server (G series) 300 units

Bid package 6: ARM-C server (G series) 3,500 units

Bid package 7: C86 server (G series) 13,627 units

Bid package 8: Hybrid server (G series) 13,370 units

Bid package 9: GPU server (G series) 6,840 units

Bid package 10: ARM-D server (G series) 2,600 units

Bid package 11: Balanced server (G series, requires LoongArch architecture of Loongson) Type A 600 units

Bid package 12: Balanced server (G series, requires Yongfeng architecture of Zhaoxin) Type B 100 units

Bid package 13: Balanced server (G series, requires SW64 architecture of Shenwei) Type C 1,200 units

According to the data of the C114 Communication Network report, as early as 2020, China Telecom separately included the all-domestically-produced servers in the bidding catalog and purchased nearly 20% of the domestically-produced servers in the server centralized procurement project that year. Then in the centralized procurement in 2021, the proportion of domestication was raised to 26.7%. In the AI server centralized procurement in 2023, the proportion of domestication approached 50%.