In the digital economy era, computing power serves as a core productive force. Hebei is accelerating the pace of its computing power industry layout, rapidly extending into the hardware manufacturing segment, and continuously solidifying the "hardcore foundation" of digital economic development.

From server complete-machine manufacturing in Xiong'an New Area to the research and development of optical chip inspection equipment in Shijiazhuang, an independently controllable computing power hardware industrial chain is rapidly taking shape across the Yanzhao region.

On one side stands Hbis Company Limited (ASX: 000709), and on the other stands Zte Corporation (ASX: 000063). In Xiong'an New Area, the two are joining forces across industries to push Hebei's computing power forward in a critical step from "use" to "manufacture." If a computing power system is compared to a supercomputer, servers are equivalent to the "body" of computing power, serving as the core hardware foundation that carries computing power output.

At the Xiong'an New Area Industrial Control and Intelligent Computing Technology Innovation Center, the Xiong'an Wisebot server intelligent manufacturing production line was built precisely for producing this core hardware: the production line is 63 meters long, equipped with 6 high-precision industrial robots, 10 vision workstations, and more than 300 intelligent sensors, enabling fully automated production throughout the entire process. On July 2, the first server from this production line officially rolled off.

Wang Yadong, Deputy General Manager of Xiong'an Wisebot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., said the flexible automated server assembly line has achieved autonomous production across the entire process from raw materials, intelligent line-side warehouses, intelligent assembly, and intelligent testing to intelligent packaging and off-line delivery. According to different configuration requirements for general computing and intelligent computing servers, it can achieve one-machine-one-changeover and one-unit-one-line customized production.

The core value of this "cross-industry cooperation" is not merely to "manufacture" servers, but even more to "embed" industrial scenarios into them. Hbis Company Limited possesses abundant industrial scenarios, massive production line data, and self-developed industrial large model capabilities, while Zte Corporation has globally leading ICT technology, a full-stack supply chain, and computing power research and development advantages. By deeply combining the two, what is produced is intelligent computing equipment that "understands industry."

Wang Xin, Operations Director of Xiong'an Wisebot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., said that focusing on intelligent computing equipment, intelligent computing all-in-one machines, and AI edge terminal devices, the company will carry out a full-scale output, not limited to implementation in industrial scenarios.

In the past, when people mentioned Hebei's computing power, they mostly thought of data centers in Zhangjiakou and Langfang, concentrated in the downstream application segments of "storage" and "computing," while the manufacturing of high-end intelligent computing servers had always been a weak link in the upstream industrial chain. The landing of Wisebot's independent server brand is equivalent to filling in a missing link by extending the industrial chain from downstream applications to upstream manufacturing.

Wang Xin, Operations Director of Xiong'an Wisebot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., said that since this base is located in Xiong'an and rooted in Xiong'an, it actually radiates the entire Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. It provides a security guarantee for localized supply in the supply chain and also fills this link in the closed-loop industrial chain of computing power layout in the north. Next, based on its independent brand Wisebot, the company will also make an external output across the whole country, the whole industry, and the whole market.

Relying on the province's deep foundation in data storage and computing power applications, Hebei continues to attract and cultivate upstream and downstream enterprises in the big data industry. Cabinets come from Cangzhou, power distribution cabinets come from Shijiazhuang... piece by piece, "Made in Hebei" products are adding bricks and tiles to the province's computing power foundation, and this industrial chain is still making breakthroughs toward more core and more specialized segments.

From Xiong'an heading south and crossing nearly two hundred kilometers, we now arrive at Hebei Shenghao Optoelectronics in the Shijiazhuang High-tech Zone. If Xiong'an Wisebot addresses server complete-machine manufacturing, then what Shenghao Optoelectronics does is even more refined: it gives optical chips a "physical examination." What is an optical chip? Artificial intelligence computing power centers need GPUs, need storage chips, and even more need high-speed optical modules for "transmission." And within optical modules, the most core and most delicate component is the optical chip.

How small is it? Yang Ziqi, Executive Director and Executive General Manager of Hebei Shenghao Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., said that, for example, customers often describe the company's products as "embroidering inside an embroidery needle." This chip is actually thinner than a human hair, and achieving corresponding cutting work on brittle materials to realize cleavage is extremely difficult.

As a core supporting link in AI computing power infrastructure, optical chip inspection equipment firmly safeguards the yield threshold in optical chip production. Previously, core equipment in this field was long monopolized by foreign countries, and inspection processes relied entirely on manual screening with the naked eye. Now, relying on independently developed hard capabilities, the company has increased inspection efficiency by 3 times.

Yang Ziqi, Executive Director and Executive General Manager of Hebei Shenghao Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., said that when the company's optical chip is placed into its equipment, from loading, photographing, applying algorithms, to outputting results, the whole process takes only 5 seconds. The inspection efficiency has now achieved a 300% improvement over manual work, and inspection accuracy is as high as 99.5%.

From underlying algorithms to core components, Shenghao Optoelectronics firmly holds the initiative in independent research and development across the entire chain. It has now formed a complete layout of 7 major categories and 38 products. As demand for AI computing power explodes, the entire industrial chain of optical modules and optical chips has entered a fast growth lane, and Shenghao Optoelectronics, riding the industry tailwind, has seen a major breakthrough in order volume.

Yang Ziqi, Executive Director and Executive General Manager of Hebei Shenghao Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., said that shipments of the company's full equipment set and full production lines have remained high. Since 2025, the company's annual compound growth rate has been above 220%.

What is advancing is not only a single enterprise, but an entire industrial chain. As of June 2026, the province's intelligent computing power scale reached 556.1 EFLOPS, and the scale of racks in use reached 2.504 million standard racks, with both indicators ranking first in the country. Relying on its massive demand-side advantages, Hebei has successively issued digital economy development plans and computing power industry support policies to promote nearby supporting of equipment manufacturing links such as servers, cabinets, power supplies, and optical modules. Up to now, it has gathered more than 30 leading upstream enterprises and initially formed a full industrial chain of "data storage + computing power scheduling + equipment manufacturing + application services."

Song Haitao, Dean of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and a member of the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, said this is a very good innovative approach to industrial linkage and industrial chain layout. Because precisely through the demand side, Hebei has built a large number of computing power centers, and then mobilized the supply side so that a large number of chip manufacturers, Xinchuang (information technology application innovation) enterprises, and even upstream and downstream processing chain enterprises can fully gather in Hebei. This has achieved the goal of using the demand side to pull the industrial chain to gather in Hebei, and it will be a very good opportunity for the next wave of AI and embodied intelligence development.