In just a few years this has helped Huawei become the second-largest cloud provider in China, behind Alibaba.

在短短几年内，这已帮助华为成为中国第二大云提供商，仅次于阿里巴巴。

And if that's not enough, there's its information and news portals, its cloud providers, and its recent move into artificial intelligence too.

如果这还不够， 还有它的信息和新闻门户、它的云提供商，以及它最近进军人工智能领域。

" They can jump directly to the cloud, " says Ji Xinhua, the founder and chief executive of UCloud, a smaller but fast-growing cloud provider.

" 它们可以直接跃上云端。" 规模较小但发展迅速的云服务提供商UCloud的创始人兼首席执行官季昕华说。

One clear winner from the cloud boom is TSMC.It is the only company currently able to manufacture the bleeding-edge processors most sought-after by the cloud providers.

台积电是云热潮的一个明显赢家。它是目前唯一一家能够制造最受云提供商追捧的尖端处理器的公司。

That means customers pay, for example, a monthly fee for cloud services and they can scale up or down as needed. And cloud providers are cashing in.

这意味着客户支付， 例如，云服务的月费，他们可以根据需要扩大或缩小规模。 云提供商正在从中获利。

Collectively, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft, the world's three biggest cloud providers, took in $43bn of sales for such services in the first three months of 2022, up by 33% from a year earlier.

全球三大云服务提供商Alphabet、亚马逊和微软在2022年第一季度共实现了430亿美元的云服务销售额，同比增长33%。

The big cloud providers, including Amazon and Google, are getting in on the game by designing their own processors, often based on blueprints from Arm, a Japanese-owned firm which licenses off-the-shelf designs that clients can tailor to their needs.

包括亚马逊和谷歌在内的大型云提供商正在通过设计自己的处理器来参与竞争，这些处理器通常基于 Arm 的蓝图， Arm 是一家日本公司， 该公司授权客户可以根据自己的需要定制现成的设计。