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Domestic market and R&D skills will make Huawei survive against U.S. sanctions: Report
Huawei’s existence in the industry has been a question after the US sanctions. The company has recorded a sudden decline in its consumer business, suggests its first-half report revenue report.
While announcing its first-half performance, Huawei’s rotating chairman Xu Zhijun also stated the company’s strategic goal for the next five years, which is just survival. Furthermore, he also mentioned that Huawei will continue to deliver quality even by facing a continuous loss.
The market research firm, Strategy Analytics, which had analyzed Huawei’s business performance in the first half of 2021 has discussed, why Huawei still has confidence in its operator and enterprise businesses.
After being adversely affected by the US sanctions, Huawei’s chip supply was interrupted. It is predicted that its Operator business will play a significant role in the next few years to uplift the growth and maintain its current position.
Although the operator business in the first half of 2021 has also recorded a decline over the previous year, the active 5G network expansion of Chinese telecom giant is expected to boost Huawei’s business.
Huawei’s scope in operator business
SA reported that China’s 5G deployment in H1 2021 has slowed down, which became the reason for Huawei’s operator business decline. Meanwhile, the Chinese operators have again started a new round of 5G deployment in new frequency bands.
Huawei already has big projects of China Mobile and China Radio and Television’s 700 MHz 5G project and China Telecom and China Unicom’s 2.1 GHz 5G project. The rapidly expanding 5G domestic market is expected to drive strong growth for its operator business in the next few years.
Furthermore, Huawei has big plans for its R&D and it will be making huge investments in the field including the telecommunication sector. Furthermore, the company will also leverage its extensive intellectual property portfolio and market-recognized ICT and cloud software expertise to expand globally.
The Chinese tech firm needs to use its early 5G scale advantage to expand its ICT market worldwide and make a futuristic growth in the market outside China.
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.
