Inspur

Inspur (officially Inspur Group Co., Ltd., formerly Langchao) (浪潮 in Chinese, means "tides") is a Chinese multinational information technology company headquartered in Jinan, Shandong, China.

Inspur's business activities include server manufacturing and software development. The company also acts as an outsourcing recipient for both the United States of America and Japan. The company's most important product is server hardware.

Inspur Group has three publicly listed subsidiaries: Inspur Information, Inspur Software and Inspur International.

History

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. 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.