2000 ; 16 years ago 2000 headquarters jinan shandong china products computer hardware revenue 36.68 billion yuan 2011 1 website www.inspur.com inspur formerly langchao tides is a chinese multinational information technology company headquartered in jinan shandong china . the company s most important product is server hardware but it also acts as a software developer and an outsourcing recipient for both the united states of america and japan . citation needed inspur group has three publicly listed subsidiaries inspur information inspur software and inspur international . 1 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit as recently as 2000 inspur was a local company based in shandong with its business activities spanning north china . the company later moved its marketing center to beijing the it industry hub of china and expanded its operations to the national level . in 2005 it was reported that microsoft had invested 20 million us in the company . 2 on 18 april 2006 the company switched its name from langchao to inspur in hopes it would increase its sales from overseas markets by as much as thirty percent by 2010 . inspur announced several agreements with virtualization software developer vmware on research and development of cloud computing technologies and related products . 3 4 in august 2009 inspur acquired the xi an based research and development facilities of qimonda ag for 30 million chinese yuan around us 4 million . 5 6 the centre had been responsible for design and development of qimonda s dram products . 6 in november 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 33.3 % stake . 7 in july 2014 it was reported that due to security concerns several chinese industries would consider using inspur s tiansuo k1 as their preferred model of server . 8 see also edit canaima operating system china software industry association gendbuntu limux nova operating system software industry in china ubuntu kylin vit c.a. references edit a b inspur group profile profile . inspur group . retrieved 29 august 2012 . microsoft invests even more in china . sci tech china daily . 27 september 2005 . retrieved 16 january 2014 . tuo yannan 23 may 2012 . vmware joins with china s inspur . china daily . retrieved 16 january 2014 . vmware and inspur announce oem agreement to further accelerate adoption of virtualization in china . press release . vmware . 25 june 2008 . retrieved 16 january 2014 . inspur completes takeover of qimonda s chinese research center . ee times . 19 august 2009 . retrieved 29 august 2012 . a b inspur group struggles to compete with foreign technology powerhouses . alibaba . 23 august 2009 . retrieved 29 august 2012 . shandong inspur software co. ltd. to set up jv . reuters . 25 november 2011 . retrieved 29 august 2012 . china starts replacing ibm servers with local brand over cyber threats . tech.com.pk . 6 july 2014 . retrieved 6 july 2014 . external links edit official website domestic servers striving to lead info market 2007 08 06 v t e it consulting and outsourcing companies of china domestic chinasoft international csoft international cienet digital china insigma inspur neusoft pactera pccw solutions wicresoft foreign mcon group former hisoft vanceinfo retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title inspur & oldid 741686683 categories companies listed on the csi 300computer hardware companiessoftware companies of chinacompanies based in jinancompanies established in 2000chinese brandsmultinational companies headquartered in chinahidden categories articles containing japanese language textall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2016companies with year of establishment missing navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 02 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view