The first high-end server independently developed by a Chinese company was officially put on the market on January 22, a step that it is thought will help break the dominance of foreign companies.

The Tiansuo K1 System, a fault-tolerant server developed by the Inspur Group Co. based in east China's Shandong Province, made its debut in Beijing after four years of research and development costing 750 million yuan ($120 million).

The server's debut ends a situation in which core equipment for China's information network has been controlled by foreign companies, Yang Xianwu, Deputy Director of the High and New Technology Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said at the launch ceremony.

China has been dependent on imports of high-end servers for a long time, and the technology and market are monopolized by international giants including IBM and HP.

High-end servers have much higher processing capacity and are the core equipment for financial, telecommunications, energy and other important industries.