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Huawei licensed car technologies to Mercedes Benz, Audi, BMW, Porsche and more
In the past three years, Huawei has significantly improved its smart car business unit, and it’s now revealed that the company has licensed its car technologies with top car makers including Mercedes Benz, Audi, BMW, and Porsche.
A report from NikkeiAsia shows that the patent licensing agreements were reached during the second half of 2022. This will result that the licensed Huawei smart car technologies in 15 million out of 70 million cars produced globally each year.
Aside from the German carmakers, Huawei has also signed deals with Japan’s Subaru, France’s Renault, Lamborghini, and Bentley.
The latest revelation comes after Huawei signed multi-year cross-licensing agreement with leading industry players and rivals in the tech industry including Samsung, Oppo, Nokia, and more.
Patent Champion:
In the face of the U.S. sanctions, Huawei is using its patent and R&D capabilities to earn profit and invest them back for more research. The patent licensing agreements, allow Huawei to not only deal with home grounds but also with foreign players for a better revenue option.
Alan Fan, Huawei’s global head of the Intellectual property Department told: “Patents are public and are not [subject] to export controls. … We also have dealings with American companies on cross-licensing deals, and [export controls] are not a factor at all,”
Alan further commented that’s that his company has signed over 20 new or extended patent license agreements in 2022. These covers technologies for smartphones, smart vehicles, networks, and the internet of things.
Talking specifically about the auto industry, Huawei made deal with over 15 leading carmakers for advanced wireless technologies.
Profitable:
Amid these developments, Huawei is also participating with local car makers by providing them with solutions for a better smart cars. CEO of Huawei Smart Car Business Unit, Yu Chengdong said, the company’s auto business unit will be profitable by 2025, along with the exploration of new growth opportunities.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
