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Huawei and Nokia extends mobile patent deal despite U.S. pressure
Two of the biggest telecom rivals could also be one of the biggest business partners. The latest extension of the mobile technology patent deal between Huawei and Nokia proves this theory quite right.
Huawei officially announced the extension patent license agreement with Nokia. However, the terms of the agreement remain confidential between the parties.
Back in 2017, Huawei and Nokia signed a multi-year patent license agreement. And the latest extension reflects Huawei’s prowess in different technologies, which continues to grow despite immense U.S. pressure.
IN 2019, Huawei was blacklisted by the U.S. government, which prohibits the world’s largest telecom equipment maker from accessing important resources to build new devices. However, the company didn’t stop researching on new technologies and spent a large sum of its investment only in R&D.
According to the information, Huawei’s R&D expenditure was 142.7 billion yuan ($21.28 billion) in 2021, which takes about 22.4 percent of its annual revenue. It’s one of the biggest stacks on research and development of new technologies.
Looking at the patent record, Huawei filed a record 6952 patents last year. From which, alone 3500 patent applications were filed with the EU patent office. As the tech maker held over 110,000 active patents globally by the end of 2021.
That’s not it, Huawei operates of 55 percent of its total workforce (over 100,000 employees) only in R&D facilities.
Other than Nokia, Huawei has also signed a multi-year cross-licensing patent-sharing agreement with its other rivals such as Oppo. The Tech maker will provide networking and 5G tech to the Chinese phone company.
In total, Huawei has partnered with over 20 leading tech companies including Samsung to share patent technologies.
“We are delighted to see our technologies are helping the automotive and other vertical industries in their digitalization,” said Alan Fan, head of Huawei’s intellectual property department. The royalties Huawei receives will in turn fund Huawei’s R&D efforts, he added.
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.
