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Key Points Industry/Company Involved - Company: Yingwei Technology - Industry: Thermal management, data center cooling, AI server cooling Core Views and Arguments - Yingwei's Business Expansion: Yingwei has expanded its business from initial data center and base station thermal control products to new energy buses, rail transit, and emerging markets such as refrigerated trucks, electronic thermal management, and healthy air environment control. [4] - Market Leadership in Data Center Cooling: Yingwei has established a leading position in data center and related businesses, driven by its strong technical research and development capabilities and effective business management. [2] - Liquid Cooling Technology: Yingwei has capitalized on the opportunity brought by the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt to the growing demand for data center cooling. [5] - Market Potential of Liquid Cooling: The market size for liquid cooling technology in data centers is expected to exceed 20 billion yuan. [8] - Yingwei's Competitive Advantage: Yingwei has an end-to-end layout advantage in the data center liquid cooling field, involving various links such as cold plates, pipelines, joints, CDU, and manifold, and has independently developed liquid formulas. [20] Other Important Points - Revenue Composition: In 2023, Yingwei's total revenue reached 3.5 billion yuan, with data center thermal control products accounting for 47% and contributing nearly 1.5 billion yuan in revenue. [13] - Cost Control and R&D Investment: Despite the short-term cost pressure caused by rising raw material prices, Yingwei's gross profit margin has recovered well in 2023. The company's overall cost ratio has shown a downward trend, benefiting from the effect of scale expansion and equity incentives. However, R&D investment has continued to grow rapidly, providing a solid foundation for the company to obtain new business scenarios. [15] - Overseas Market Development: The overseas liquid cooling market is developing rapidly, with many companies introducing liquid cooling technology and expanding their business scope. [16] - Domestic Market Development: The domestic liquid cooling market is not lagging behind overseas. Operators play an important role in the construction of data centers, and their liquid cooling penetration rate plan has been raised from 10% in 2024 to 50% in 2025. [17] - Future Market Outlook: The liquid cooling market is expected to reach a scale of over 20 billion yuan, with the market demand for AI servers estimated to be between 10 billion and 100 billion yuan, and the potential of general servers reaching about 150 billion yuan. [23]