Beijing's first space computing center approved in Haidian

Beijing's first space computing industry innovation center was officially established on Monday at the Beijing Satellite Internet of Things (IoT) Industry Development Conference held in Haidian district, according to Securities Times.

The center was approved by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and will be jointly led by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and leading companies in the sector, with support from Haidian district.

Wang Shangguang, dean of the university's School of Computer Science, said the center will adopt a "company plus alliance" model and focus on six key areas across the space computing industrial chain, the report said.

These include highly reliable and heat-resistant space-native computing chips, high-performance interconnected space computing payloads, space computing satellite platforms and standards, space large models designed under power-consumption and reliability constraints, integrated space-ground communication and cloud-based control networks, and service-based and tokenized operations for space computing, it reported.

Wang said the center aims to connect the full stack of chips, hardware, platforms, intelligence, networks, and applications, creating a coordinated industrial system for space-native computing.