The U.S. eight diamonds, specifically refers to the "U.S. IT industry eight diamonds".
Due to the "Prism Gate", China's information security is slightly more prominent in the United States, represented by Cisco "eight diamonds" (Cisco (cisco), IBM, Google (Google), Qualcomm (Qualcomm), Intel (Intel), Apple (Apple), Oracle (Oracle), Microsoft (Microsoft)) in front of the virtual.
From cell phones to servers, from office software to operating systems, from search engines to wireless communications technology, the U.S. "Big 8" have penetrated almost every aspect of China's network; government, customs, postal services, finance, railroads, civil aviation, medical care, military and police, and almost every sector. The shadow of the U.S. technology giants.
IBM is the world's largest information technology and business solutions company, and as early as 1934, IBM was already doing business in China. According to IDC (Internet Data Center) data, IBM has been number one in Unix server market share in China for 15 consecutive years.
Cisco is the world's largest IT product provider in the cloud computing market. in August 1994, Cisco Beijing office was established. Currently, Cisco occupies about 73% of the backbone network of China Telecom and other backbone networks, holding all the super core nodes and most of the ordinary core nodes of the 163 backbone network.
Microsoft's main products include the Windows operating system, the Internet Explorer web browser, and the Microsoft Office suite of office software. According to NetMarketshare, Microsoft dominates the desktop operating system market in China with more than 91% share.
Qualcomm is also the only chip maker that supports Android at all levels, and the vast majority of Chinese smartphone users use the Android platform.
Intel has a massive 85.2% share of the global PC semiconductor chip market, and Lenovo, which is powered by Intel chips, has nearly 40% of the PC market in China.
Apple , the company's hardware products are mainly Mac computer series, iPod media players, iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets, etc.; Apple surpassed Coca-Cola to become the world's most valuable brand in 2014. in the evening of August 2, 2018, Apple's intraday market capitalization for the first time exceeded $1 trillion, and the stock price set a new all-time high to 203.57 dollars.
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company, its products are mainly servers and enterprise application software, officially entered the Chinese market in 1989.In 2012, Oracle once again occupied the first place in the application server market with 40.7% market share.
Google is recognized as the world's largest search engine, providing easy-to-use, free information services. Google has surpassed Microsoft to become the world's second largest technology company by market capitalization.