Inspur Group is an information technology conglomerate in the

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focusing on

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

, key application hosts, servers, storage,

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

and ERP. On April 18, 2006, Inspur changed its English name from Langchao to Inspur. It is listed on the SSE,

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, and SEHK.

History

In 2005,

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invested US$20 million in the company. Inspur announced several agreements with virtualization software developer VMware on research and development of

technologies and related products. In 2009, Inspur acquired the Xi'an-based research and development facilities of Qimonda AG for 30 million Chinese yuan (around US$4 million). The centre had been responsible for design and development of Qimonda's DRAM products. In 2011, Shandong Inspur Software Co., Ltd., Inspur Electronic Information Co., Ltd. and Inspur (Shandong) Electronic Information Company, established a cloud computing joint venture, with each holding a third.

U.S. sanctions

In June 2020, the

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published a list of Chinese companies operating in the U.S. that have ties to the

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, which included Inspur. In November 2020,

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issued an

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prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the U.S. Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army. In March 2023, the

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added Inspur to the

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. In March 2025, several Inspur subsidiaries were also added to the Entity List, including its Aivres Systems subsidiary.

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History

U.S. sanctions

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