The first 5G ultra-high-definition interactive video computing center for China Mobile's E-Cloud was recently officially launched in the Horinger New Area in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to a report in the Hohhot Daily.

The center is currently the biggest General Purpose Computation (GPU) heterogeneous computing resource pool in China for mobile cloud nodes.

It can meet the delay and bandwidth requirements of functions like large data volume forwarding, artificial intelligence and image rendering – as well as the application requirements of vertical industries – and has improved computing power service capabilities such as cloud rendering, cloud games and cloud videos in Inner Mongolia.

The new computing power center is divided into three sections: a hardware layer, cloud management platform layer and an application layer.

The facility's first customer has already moved in and has used VR, cloud games and ultra-high-definition interactive video computing services provided by China Mobile E-Cloud.

In recent years, the Horinger New Area has become known as a driving force in the metropolis.

It has used its competitive advantages as an industrial hub to support the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure, while accelerating the introduction of various big data and cloud computing infrastructure projects.

A dedicated international internet data channel was launched on July 6 last year in the new area, representing the first of its kind in the region.

It is expected to boost the efficiency and quality of connections between enterprises in the autonomous region and the rest of the world.

This is predicted to provide strong support for Inner Mongolia's cross-regional and cross-border computing power scheduling, settlements and data applications, as well as for research and development.

Moving forwards, plans are for the new area to continue to give full play to its advantages. This will enable it to develop into a green computing power center to help fulfill the national strategy of channeling computing resources from east to west – as well as pave the way for it to become the "China Cloud Valley".