Huawei News and Analyses

[TaiShang]

Huawei KunLun 9008 V5 Achieves Record-breaking Test Score on SAP® Business Warehouse Powered By SAP HANA® Benchmark Version 3

Mar 13, 2019

[Shenzhen, China, March 13, 2019] Huawei Technologies today announced that its KunLun 9008 V5 delivered a record-breaking test score of 5,475 queries per hour in phase 2 with 11.7 billion initial records loaded.

SAP® Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA® is a state-of-the-art solution from SAP that enables consolidation of data from diverse SAP and non-SAP sources. The SAP BW powered by SAP HANA Benchmark Version 3 is among the most influential and recognized benchmarks for testing. This benchmark measures the analytics performance indicators of SAP HANA solutions. The Huawei KunLun server under test is configured with eight Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 Scalable processors, 224 cores, and 6 TB memory.

Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Servers leverage innovative Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS 2.0) technologies to support proactive fault analysis and isolation, maximizing business continuity. KunLun supports physical and logical partitioning, allowing physical computing resources to be flexibly allocated on demand for improved utilization. In addition, KunLun supports an open ecosystem and is backed by a complete industry chain. It can be provided as an end-to-end solution to customers.

Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server SAP HANA appliance

Know more about the test：https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2018-benchmark-directory/#/bwh?id=a8f0c356-2bca-4faf-a814-06d1242b8a57.

Huawei is a global technical partner of SAP and works with SAP to launch innovative SAP HANA appliance solutions to enable real-time analytics for industry customers with cutting-edge in-memory computing. Up to now, Huawei SAP HANA appliance solutions have served more than 1,000 customers in over 40 countries and areas, including over 30 Fortune Global 500 companies.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/3/huawei-kunlun-9008-v5-record-breaking-test-score

 

[TaiShang]

China's Huawei "not a security threat to the Philippines": senior official

CGTN - 14-Mar-2019

A senior Philippine official has said that China's telecommunications giant Huawei is "not a security threat to the Philippines" and that his country will not ban the use of its equipment, local media reported on Thursday.

Allan Cabanlong, assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Enabling Technologies of the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology, told local media on Wednesday that there is no scientific basis to support some Western countries' charge that Huawei is engaged in espionage.

"Right now, there is no scientific evidence on Huawei conducting espionage in the Philippines," Cabanlong said.

"So our stand in the Philippines (is that), we cannot block something that has no scientific evidence or engineering or IT process evidence... we cannot block Huawei from any network in the Philippines," he added.

"There's no cause for alarm for Huawei as of now," Cabanlong said, adding that "We are conducting continuous due diligence. Detection is very important. If other countries see there is a threat they should have provided us with concrete evidence."

The Philippine telco giants Globe and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) are utilizing Huawei's equipment and infrastructure for their wireless networks.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d78557a4d33457a6333566d54/index.html

@oprih

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Huawei Servers Get Nod From US Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Leader

LIAO SHUMIN

DATE : MAR 14 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

(Yicai Global) March 14 -- Chinese electronics giant Huawei has officially secured certification from a leading US cloud player for the use of its servers in hyper-converged infrastructure, which combines computing, storage, and networking into a single system.

California-based Nutanix has added the company's servers to its compatible hardware list, kicking off a partnership between the pair in HCI, the Shenzhen-based firm said in a statement.

Headquartered in San Jose, Nutanix enjoys the largest market share among HCI tech firms and Gartner ranked it as a leader in its Magic Quadrant report for the sector again last year.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/hu...from-us-hyper-converged-infrastructure-leader

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Even USers use Huawei components but ask others to stop. I think the US does not want others to leap forward in 5G by using Huawei.

Selfish! BAD!

@Dungeness , @cirr

 

[cirr]

HUAWEI MATE 30 RENDER BRINGS A DUAL-DISPLAY DESIGN

PIERRE MARCH 13, 2019

Chinese phone maker Huawei isn’t new to experimenting alternative designs on their lineup of devices, or at least it’d appear so if we look at all their patents discovered over the past months. Well, as the title suggest we now have a new addition to the list. We’re talking about a device with a dual screen design, very similar to what we already have on the Nubia X and Vivo NEX dual-screen version.

As we can see in the images produced by Dutch news Letsgodigital, what we can refer as the “Huawei Mate 30” might be sporting a display on the back that takes around half the surface. Above it we then find three cameras placed horizontally which protrude quite a bit, but given the positioning they might actually come handy to keep the smartphone slightly tilted. Of course, a case could remove the bulge altogether.

The display could also be used to snap selfies with the better rear facing cameras, or to simply show additional info such as weather, music playlist etc..

Moving onto the front, we still find a tiny notch with a ToF 3D deep-sensing lens, which would be used for 3D face recognition, a feature that is probably not going away anytime soon. According to the render we’ll also have a very narrow chin and a 3.5mm headphone jack at the bottom.

Since it is only a patent, we still know nothing about its possible specifications. We would also like to point out that not all patents get translated into real world devices. So, while this Huawei Mate 30 render could actually become reality, we suggest taking the news with a massive grain of salt.

ONE OF EVERY THREE PHONES SOLD IN CHINA IS HUAWEI’S

EFE UDIN MARCH 14, 2019

Today at the Shanghai AWE 2019 conference Huawei’s consumer business CEO, Yu Chengdong, said that this year, Huawei and its Honor sub-brand targets 250 to 260 million units which would take the company closer to the number one spot in the world. Last year, Huawei and Honor smartphone sales hit 206 million units, ranking third in the world, but the gap between the Chinese manufacturer and Apple is very small.

Yu Chengdong said “In China, for every three smartphones bought by consumers, one is a Huawei phone. This year our goal is to have one for every two devices which means that we can get over 50% of China’s market share.”

In other news, Huawei’s CEO said that the company will not enter the TV market, Yu Chengdong was very clear. “Huawei will not do traditional TVs” he said. “The traditional TV experience is very bad and many people in the first-tier cities do not use conventional TVs”. However, Huawei will explore the large screens especially when it comes with AI functions. Currently, the company is discussing with partners and it could possibly release a product this year. Huawei also said that it will delve more into the IoT business. It will obviously create a huge competition for Xiaomi who is clearly ahead in IoT development.

https://www.gizchina.com/2019/03/14/one-of-every-three-phones-sold-in-china-is-huaweis/

 

[TaiShang]

This year our goal is to have one for every two devices which means that we can get over 50% of China’s market share.”

Make China Great Again

 

[cirr]

Make China Great Again

华为P30备货超1600万、OPPO追加上百万订单带动台湾供应链回暖

2019-03-15 11:32

目前，由于小米9五度开售依然秒告罄，激怒不少米粉后，关于新产品的备货量问题再度引起网友热议。根据供应链消息，将在3月26日于法国巴黎正式发布的华为P30系列，前期备货量将达1600万，目前已经下单。

而OPPO 确定推出新系列 Reno ，故在整体备货上也将追加百万部订单。与此同时，供应链厂商如台积电、大立光、华通等也因此在淡季回暖。

虽然台积电、大立光等供应商一向不会对自身的订单量有过多言论，但有知情人士分析，台积电与海思、高通、联发科等主流芯片厂商合作，所以订单量非常可观；而大立光、华通等厂商也将因此得益，其3月营运情况有望回稳。

受苹果2018年新品的销售业绩影响，台湾电子厂商的业绩也同步下降。而此时传出华为、OPPO 尽力备货的消息，从各个市场数据调研机构出具的报告来看，华为、 OPPO 在全球范围的出货能力有目共睹，作为世界出货排名前五的两大厂商，其订单量自然不言而喻，这也为台湾电子供应链注入新的动力，以这两家中国厂商为例的安卓阵营将在电子产业链中占据越来越大的比重。

另外有消息指，海思方面有计划提早推出旗舰芯片，因此已要求台积电将预定 Q3 完成量产的芯片提前到 Q2 。大立光同步也预告，3月的工作天数恢复正常，同时也透露了营收将优于2月的消息，侧面验证了非苹果客户对电子产业链的助力。

至于华通，因为其持续与中国厂商的深度合作以扩大旗下相机模组、电池管理模组的市场占有率，而目前华通在这些领域的技术较为领先，特别在是近年手机摄影的重要性不断增加的基础上，华通的优势愈发明显，因此其订单量增加也是意料之中的事。

 

[cirr]

Huawei developed its own operating systems in case it’s banned from using Android and Windows

Prepared for the worst

By Cameron Faulkner@camfaulkner Mar 14, 2019, 2:16pm EDT

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

Huawei has developed its own proprietary operating systems, and it’s ready to implement them in case its US legal battle leads to a ban on the export of US-made products and services like Android and Windows.

“We have prepared our own operating system, if it turns out we can no longer use these systems, we will be ready and have our plan B,” Huawei executive Richard Yu shared in a recent interview with Die Welt. Huawei began working on an Android replacement as early as 2012 when the US opened an investigation into Huawei and ZTE, according to the South China Morning Post, and it was still developing the system in 2016. The announcement of its “plan B” operating system comes at a time when Huawei is ensnared in an ongoing legal battle with the US, which could result in the company being banned from receiving exports from the US. If it comes to that, Huawei says it will be ready.

Recently, Huawei sued the US in response to a ban that prevents its tech from being used in “federal networks, effectively also preventing major government contractors from using Huawei equipment,” according to a report from The Verge’s Colin Lecher. Huawei’s suit states that the US “unconstitutionally singled out Huawei for punishment” and that a ban on Huawei would put America behind other regions in the race to build out 5G networks.

Yu shared that Huawei would “prefer to work with the ecosystems of Google and Microsoft,” but that it’s ready to switch over to its in-house operating system should the legal climate worsen. Since Huawei makes the Kirin processors found in most of its smartphones, it would be in a much better position to weather a ban than ZTE, which suffered a three-month ban in 2018. That prevented ZTE from using Google’s Android operating system and from receiving exports from US companies to develop its smartphones.

Even though it says it’s ready with an OS replacement for its computers, Huawei would need to find new hardware partners since it relies on Intel processors in its Windows laptops. With Intel and Qualcomm off the table and MediaTek processors generally reserved for cheaper, low-performance devices like Chromebooks, Huawei may need to start developing its own laptop-grade processors.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18265646/huawei-operating-systems-android-windows-ban

 

[Globenim]

Huawei expects to secure 5G contracts in Germany
By Cheng Yu and Ma Si | China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-01 08:13

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co has said that it expects to win 5G network contracts in Germany, which would mark the latest vote of confidence from foreign telecom carriers despite security allegations the company faces in some overseas markets.

Huawei is expected to deliver components needed for building 5G networks to major telecom carriers operating in Germany, namely Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica, said Vincent Pang, president of Huawei Western Europe, in an interview with German newspaper Rheinische Post.

Do I need to point out that the editor of the article published by the newspaper "Handelsblatt" which was feverishly cited and echoed by U.S. regime mouthpieces like Bloomberg or Washington Post and other proxies, that started the entire "Germany considers Huawei 5G ban" debate, was actually a Washington Post affiliate, that the article had practically no sources besides "people who know people familiar with the matter" like its the norm in U.S. propaganda now and that there was never actually an official debate or even evidence of the German government singling out Huawei in their security debates or discussed any plans to target Huawei specifically, as the article heavily suggested quoting anonymous "opinions" and making "suggestions" how the German government theoretically "could" attack Huawei by who knows whom, while the only public debate that explictly names Huawei they mention was a non-government tech expert meeting that raised a big question mark behind the U.S. accusations and resulted in absolutely no ramifications against Huawei and the renewed security talks where dealing with the political pressure from the U.S. regime and Huawei was never a real issue.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

The first Chinese domestic 5G chip: Huawei Kirin 990 has entered the test phase
2019-03-13 08:46:49

According to the industry chain news, Huawei is now working with TSMC to conduct the testing phase of Kirin 990. It is reported that Kirin 990 uses TSMC's second-generation 7nm process. Compared with the first generation, the second generation added a V-lithography machine, which can increase the transistor density by 20%, reduce power consumption by 10%, and improve overall performance by about 10%. In addition, Kirin 990 will integrate the Baron 5000 baseband and support 5G Internet access. By then, Kirin 990 is likely to become the strongest processor in China.

Faced with the rapid development of Kirin chip, it is difficult for Snapdragon chip to continue to develop at the current development speed. If Snapdragon 855 does not have much improvement in performance, then the loss of the original Snapdragon chip is also the leading advantage. Things in the morning and evening. However, the release of Kirin 990 may not be so early. Huawei's need to reduce the generation difference with Qualcomm chips remains the main problem facing Huawei chips. But I believe that the development of Kirin will definitely exceed the dragon in the future!

https://www.toutiao.com/a6667670480230547976/

 

[bobsm]

Huawei contract for Perth trains confirmed by WA Government despite US-China fight
By Nicolas Perpitch
Updated Wed at 5:19pm

The McGowan Government is pushing ahead with its contract with Chinese telecommunications company Huawei to build a new digital radio system for Perth's trains, saying it has received assurances from the company.

Transport Minister Rita Saffioti had asked Huawei whether it could deliver the $200 million contract after the US Government unsealed two indictments against the company in January.

The Public Transport Authority (PTA) awarded the contracts for the 4G project's design, build and maintenance to a joint venture between Huawei and UGL in July 2018, after expressions of interest were sought the previous year.

Ms Saffioti has told Parliament that at her request, senior PTA staff met in February with eight senior Huawei and UGL staff, including Huawei Australia chairman John Lord.

"The Huawei and UGL representatives confirmed they would be able to source equipment required for the project. Further confirmation was subsequently received by the PTA," Ms Saffioti said.

"The State Government is committed to delivering this project, and making sure that the proponents deliver on their contractual obligations.

"To that end the state will continue to monitor this contract, with the involvement of other key state agencies."

The allegations by the United States Justice Department in January prompted greater scrutiny of how the Chinese tech giant does business and intensified a trade dispute between the US and China.

Ms Saffioti said because of the ongoing monitoring of the contract, she had been advised she could not table correspondence with the company "at this stage".

Deputy Liberal leader Lisa Harvey said the correspondence from Huawei promising it could deliver the contract should be made public, and it was typical of Ms Saffioti to "hide" it.

"That's typical of this Minister. She's very secretive," Ms Harvey said.

"We constantly have to go to the FOI commissioner, to get clearance from the FOI commissioner with respect to information she fails to provide."

The State Opposition has previously questioned the extent to which the Government consulted with security agencies over the contract, and whether it properly followed any advice.

There have also been wider concerns over whether the firm's technology would enable outside access to Australian infrastructure.

But Ms Saffioti repeated her position that the Government had sought and followed advice from Commonwealth security agencies.

No Chinese interference, Huawei says

In January, Mr Lord insisted the Chinese government had never asked nor directed Huawei to gather information for intelligence purposes in Australia.

"I have been over the last seven years involved in Huawei's highest level strategic planning groups," he said at the time.

"I've never seen any such influence. It's been free-flowing and in fact the points we address are: 'What is that country's view on X, Y and Z and how do we meet that in that country?'

"So there has been no suggestion, no inference of any Chinese interference in our operations in other countries."

The digital radio system project was separated from a broader proposed "automatic train control" project in 2013-14.

It will see Huawei build around 80 radio masts and base stations throughout the metropolitan network and replace radio devices in trains, security vehicles and handheld radios.

The network, which is due to be up and running in 2021, will be used by train drivers, as well as customer service, security and train control staff.

Ms Saffioti has previously said the radio system would be a closed network, like one in New South Wales.

"We are confident about the security aspects in relation to the system," she said.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...th-trains-confirmed-by-wa-government/10896220

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei Releases the QuickODN Solution

Helping Operators Build Fiber Infrastructure Efficiently for 10G PON Era

Mar 13, 2019

[Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 13, 2019] In the 2019 FTTH Conference, Huawei officially released the QuickODN solution for the 10G PON era. Featuring efficient planning, quick deployment, and digital operation and maintenance (O&M) capabilities, the solution helps operators build 10G PON infrastructure networks and pave the highways for transmitting multiple services, thereby realizing an upward business spiral for the fiber broadband industry.

According to the Huawei global industry vision (GIV) 2025, the total number of global connections will reach 100 billion by 2025, and the Internet will cover 77% of world's population. Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is the mainstream mode for future network construction. However, the FTTH development level varies with regions. Operators face three major challenges in implementing the FTTH strategy, namely low planning efficiency, long construction period, and high O&M cost. To address these challenges, Huawei released the QuickODN solution to help operators efficiently plan and quickly deploy FTTH, and implement digital O&M for PON networks.

Efficient planning: During fiber network construction, it is recommended that thick coverage and short access be realized in the first-phase investment to cover more than 80% of home and enterprise users and shorten the drop cable to within 50 meters. Based on multi-dimensional data and experience models, Huawei introduces the artificial intelligence (AI) modeling technology to find the most suitable value model for customers. In addition, Huawei has developed SmartODN, an industry-leading intelligent network planning tool, to help operators select the optimal and most cost-effective fiber paths, improving network planning efficiency tenfold.

Quick deployment: Based on global engineering best practices and expertise, Huawei has standardized the deployment process, set up personnel capability baselines, and normalized product selection to help operators greatly improve the deployment efficiency. The industry-leading quick connect technology is used to simplify deployment and eliminate fiber splicing which requires skilled technicians. Using 100,000 home pass ports as an example, the deployment period is reduced from 12 months to 8 months by 180 technicians. By changing traditional sequential construction to parallel construction, the Huawei QuickODN solution also triples the deployment efficiency and shortens the time to market (TTM) by 30%. Using the Huawei solution, the deployment process is no longer technically demanding, and the ODN engineering quality is ensured by industrialized products.

Digital O&M: The Huawei QuickODN solution greatly improves the O&M efficiency by using the near field communication (NFC) technology, smart acceptance scheme, and digital delivery O&M platform. The NFC technology is used to visualize the topology of a PON network with resource accuracy up to 100% and shorten the service provisioning time from 4 hours to less than one hour. Using the smart acceptance scheme, the site acceptance time is shortened from 30 minutes by two persons to five minutes by one person. The digital delivery O&M platform simplifies PON network management and acceptance, helping operators achieve the industry benchmark of "installation and maintenance within one day".

Huawei has been dedicated to technological innovation and providing customers with leading ODN solutions with precise planning, quick deployment, and digital O&M. Up to now, the Huawei QuickODN solution has served more than 80 operators worldwide with more than 90 million lines successfully deployed. In the future, Huawei will continue to innovate in the fiber infrastructure network field to help operators build leading fiber networks in the 10G PON era, reduce network construction costs, improve home access efficiency, provide superb experience for global optical broadband users, and realize commercial success.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/3/huawei-releases-quickodn-solution

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei Releases New Flagship ONT EchoLife K5 Pro to Deliver Premium Home Wi-Fi Experience

Mar 18, 2019

[Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 18, 2019] At the FTTH Conference 2019, Huawei released its new flagship GPON ONT, the Huawei EchoLife K5 Pro, which complies with the latest TR-398 Wi-Fi performance test standard released by the Broadband Forum (BBF). This flagship device delivers a carrier-class Wi-Fi service to users, providing a smooth, high-speed Wi-Fi experience, full coverage in homes and the ultimate ultra-HD video experience.

In large apartments and houses, although the access bandwidth can be as high as 100 Mbps, common Wi-Fi devices are unable to provide whole-home coverage. This results in poor performance and service experience, especially as new services such as 4K/8K video, online games, and IoT become more popular. Existing home networks struggle to realize the high-speed experience required in many home network service scenarios.

Statistics from OVUM show that 30–60 percent of experience complaints are related to Wi-Fi. Smooth Wi-Fi experience has become a key feature of premium broadband services. Experience bottlenecks slow the growth of operators' broadband revenue. Operators must therefore shift their focus from bandwidth to user experience, and building premium Wi-Fi is the key.

The EchoLife K5 Pro, Huawei's flagship GPON ONT, is designed to resolve many of the issues found on Wi-Fi networks for smooth playback of 4K videos, such as signal conflicts, severe interference, poor coverage, and low throughput, which negatively affect home user experience. With Huawei's EchoLife K5 Pro ONT, operators are able to build home Wi-Fi networks that deliver premium Wi-Fi and ultimate 4K/8K video experience.

Huawei EchoLife K5 Pro ONT

Delivering a smooth, high-speed Wi-Fi experience, the EchoLife K5 Pro ONT meets the BBF TR-398 performance test standard, with an air interface rate up to 2180 Mbps. It leverages the beamforming technology to improve Wi-Fi coverage by up to 25 percent, and automatically selects the optimal Wi-Fi frequency band (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) to ensure a carrier-class Wi-Fi experience with strong anti-interference for multiple users in one residence. In addition, the ONT achieves smooth playback of 4K videos on multiple TVs over Wi-Fi — even if the packet loss rate reaches near 1 percent — thanks to an optimization algorithm designed to address severe interference.

With the EchoLife K5 Pro ONT, users can realize ubiquitous high-speed broadband experience throughout their homes. The ONT supports the PremiumWi-Fi solution to form a mesh network with edge ONT products and flexibly extend Wi-Fi coverage, facilitating whole-home Wi-Fi coverage in areas where signals from a single ONT cannot reach. This solution integrates the Wi-Fi cloud O&M management system to support real-time Wi-Fi performance visibility and help operators detect Wi-Fi faults with one click, reducing home visits by 30 percent and significantly lowering O&M costs.

The EchoLife K5 Pro ONT also supports gigabit high-speed access and high-fidelity voice, providing ultra-gigabit broadband access for bandwidth-hungry services such as home video, entertainment, and games.

The Huawei EchoLife K5 Pro fully supports GPON FTTH network deployment, helping operators deliver a premium home Wi-Fi experience. To date, Huawei's fixed network terminal products in its Transmission & Access Product Line have been widely used in more than 100 countries and regions, with global shipments exceeding 380 million units. Thanks to continuous innovation, Huawei has taken the lead in both the GPON and 10G PON era to help operators succeed in the home broadband market.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/3/huawei-new-flagship-ont-echolife-k5-pro

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Huawei's response to US' geopolitical game: move on and do better

By Chen Qingqing Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/18

Defying Washington’s geopolitical maneuvering

A digital screen displays a Huawei logo during a Huawei launch event ahead of the MWC Barcelona in Spain on Feburary 24. Photo: VCG


Keep calm and carry on. China's Huawei Technologies has kept winning contracts in Western countries, which is its active response to US-led geopolitical pressure - offering better-quality products and services to local companies in overseas markets. This effort will show that Washington's groundless accusations are a vain attempt, analysts said.

The Western Australia government has decided to sign a $200 million contract with Huawei to build a new digital radio system for Perth's trains, according to recent media reports. Although the Australian central government in August 2018 ordered a ban on Huawei building the country's 5G networks, citing security concerns, the Chinese company has not stopped winning contracts in Australia.

The radio system, which is due to be up and running in 2021, will be used by train drivers, as well as customer service, security and train control employees, according to local news site abc.net.au.

West Australian Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said the local authority is confident about the security aspects in relation to the system, the report said.

Meanwhile, Huawei has secured another rail contract in Germany by helping Deutsche Bahn - a German rail company - go digital, local TV channel Deutsche Welle reported during the weekend.

The US has been lobbying countries including the UK, Australia and Germany to urge them to drop Huawei's products, and it has accused the Chinese company of spying for the Chinese government and posing risks to the national security of those countries.

Without providing hard evidence, the US-led global crackdown on Huawei has not persuaded some of its major allies. Huawei senior executives have repeatedly said they have maintained a strong track record in security over the past 30 years, and they believe that foreign partners will continue to use the company's products.

"The US government may have underestimated that countries across the world, including their governments, companies and people, would make their own judgments," Huawei board member and senior vice president Catherine Chen said in a recent interview.

There are a variety of reasons why many countries are ignoring the backlash and rumors of cyber security risks, and the dominant one is that Huawei is simply ahead of the competition when it comes to 5G as well as its competitive pricing, Kevin Curran, professor of cyber security at Ulster University, told the Global Times on Monday.

"Huawei's presence in emerging markets, global dominance in handsets and growing enterprise business should see it through this period and the arrival of the Internet of Things may provide another large boost in the near future," he said.

Huawei sued the US government for its unfair ban on its products on March 7, saying US Congress has repeatedly failed to produce any evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products.

"The Chinese company has dared to challenge the American authorities, which also shows it has no fear thanks to its technology competitiveness," Xiang Ligang, a Beijing-based industry analyst, told the Global Times.

@cirr

 

[Menthol]

Guess the phone!

 

[Dungeness]

Guess the phone!

Huawei P30 Pro

 

[TaiShang]

HUAWEI CLOUD Unveils New AI and Blockchain Services in Hong Kong

Announces increased commitment to the city at Huawei Cloud Hong Kong Summit 2019

Mar 19, 2019

[China, Hong Kong, March 19, 2019] Hosting its 2019 Cloud Summit in Hong Kong today, Huawei announced it is strategically investing in the city and the region to contribute to the economic development of the Greater Bay Area by helping enterprises embrace the intelligent future of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). The Summit has gathered together more than 1,000 customers, partners, industry representatives, and academics from Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Macau.

Driving the AI era with increased commitment to Hong Kong

Taking to the stage at Cloud Summit, Edward Deng, President of Huawei Cloud Global Market, unveiled the following:

▶ HUAWEI CLOUD’s enterprise intelligence (EI) full-stack AI solutions will be available in Hong Kong from the end of March, offering enterprises 48 EI services, including the one-stop AI developer platform ModelArts, optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing, and video analysis.

▶ HUAWEI CLOUD is now offering blockchain services to help Hong Kong leverage blockchain’s characteristics of decentralization, irreversibility, and traceability to solidify its position as an international financial and logistics hub.

▶ HUAWEI CLOUD has expanded its footprint, becoming the first international cloud provider to offer three availability zones in Hong Kong to provide users with secure and scalable cloud services that are easy to deploy.

▶ IoT services are now available for all scenarios, providing secure and trusted three-step global access to more than 1,000 object models.

▶ The Huawei Enterprise Overseas Application Store will open in April, with more than 40 Independent Software Vendors offering 250 solutions in more than 16 categories to help users quickly purchase and obtain cloud resources and services.

Edward Deng, President of Huawei Cloud Global Market

"HUAWEI CLOUD has six core advantages: most intelligent, most cost-effective, neutral and reliable, most suitable for organizations in the public sector and big enterprises, most expansive ecosystem, and best-in-class service and support. These six core advantages are built on Huawei’s aggregated R&D efforts and its core value of realizing customer-centricity,” Mr. Deng said.

Huawei’s innovative full-stack services

With the most intelligent cloud, HUAWEI CLOUD provides full stack full scenario AI solutions. Huawei Cloud EI ModelArts development platform is ranked No.1 in the world for its training speed of image recognition, according to Stanford University's authoritative international benchmarking platform for measuring end-to-end deep-learning model training and reasoning performance. HUAWEI CLOUD has completed more than 200 AI projects, serving Shenzhen Traffic Police Bureau, Sanlian Hongpu, and Kingmed diagnostics, among others.

HUAWEI CLOUD offers customers a cost-effective cloud service through technological innovation. It delivers high performance at low cost, with a strong product portfolio composed of C3 computing instance, M3 computing instance, bare metal service (BMS), object storage (OBS), and more. Customers include Sina and Huawei Terminal Consumer Cloud.

Huawei is neutral and reliable, with security being of paramount importance. HUAWEI CLOUD abides by the laws and regulations of all the markets where it operates and has already obtained 41 certifications globally. It has established a three-dimensional security system covering six major areas to protect customers’ data sovereignty.

This helps make HUAWEI CLOUD the most suitable cloud for the public sector and large enterprises. With eight years of experience cultivating its business in the enterprise market and going through digital transformation, 221 of the Fortune 500 companies have chosen Huawei to help build smart cities, smart factories, smart transportation, and smart urban parking.

HUAWEI CLOUD is committed to nurturing the cloud ecosystem, with more than 6,000 partners and 2,800 online products available to help customers navigate digital transformation.

HUAWEI CLOUD also provides the best service and support to customers, with local Huawei team supporting its global network in more than 170 countries worldwide. HUAWEI CLOUD currently has a total of 40 availability zones in 23 regions, enabling users to access the same platform globally.

Strengthening Hong Kong’s status a global hub

In the era of digital transformation, cloud and AI technologies are the fastest way for the region’s enterprises and authorities to accelerate innovation and stimulate growth. With initiatives that focus on Hong Kong, HUAWEI CLOUD is signaling its commitment to this important market.

Speaking at Cloud Summit, Zhang Yuxin, CTO of HUAWEI CLOUD, explained why HUAWEI CLOUD offers customers full-stack services built on cloud and AI. “Our vision is to join hands with our Hong Kong customers, industry partners, and academic associations to build a smart future for this vibrant city, as well as to drive technology innovation and business development throughout the Greater Bay Area,” he said.

Huawei's services are particularly advantageous for Hong Kong's positioning as a hub to connect with the rest of the world. For example, HUAWEI CLOUD Connect provides one-stop global compliance services, with 400+ POP nodes around the world to help enterprises create a global cloud network connecting more than 170 countries and regions within one minute. The HUAWEI CLOUD Stack (HCS) is a hybrid cloud solution that provides a unified, full-stack and reliable hybrid cloud capability for large enterprises, bringing full-stack technology innovation to customer data centers and providing zero latency with five unified industry-leading advantages. It offers customers a seamless experience during system upgrades.

HUAWEI CLOUD customers in Hong Kong include ICBC Asia, Phoenix TV, HKT, Freeman Securities, Skyworth Digital, TravelSky Technology, and Four Directions, as well as many more across financial, technology, media and communications, campus and other industries. HUAWEI CLOUD hopes to be rooted in Hong Kong and serve Hong Kong through being an expert partner to help local enterprises transform towards cloud and intelligence.

HUAWEI CLOUD AI Developer Contest winners

During the summit, Huawei announced the winners of the inaugural HUAWEI CLOUD AI Developer Contest co-organized by HUAWEI CLOUD, Hong Kong Society of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (HKSAIR), and Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP).

• Winner: Team BDT from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• First runner-up: Team A.I. Phoenix from Hong Kong Baptist University
• Second runner-up: Team no man sky 5 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. David Chung, Under Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR,presented the prize to the winners

Dr. David Chung, Under Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, said: “The next round of industrial transformation will be driven by AI, and AI is one of the key I&T areas that Hong Kong focuses on, with the AIR@InnoHK being set up in the Science Park to pool the world's top scientific institutions and technology enterprises with local universities and research institutions to develop AI and robotics technologies.”

He praised the young participants of the Contest and said, "I am thrilled with the creativity and innovation shown in your projects to solve our taste bud problems. AI + Talent are our future." Sixty teams of developers entered the HUAWEI CLOUD AI Developer Contest. Under the theme “Love AI Cuisine”, teams used HUAWEI CLOUD’s full-stack ModelArts AI developer platform to develop an AI-coded system capable of identifying foods by learning from only a few sample images. The teams also faced questions from the judges from HKSAIR and HKSTP in a presentation round.

All winning teams will be invited to visit Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen to learn about AI development. The winning team is eligible to enter the semi-finals of the China Huawei AI contest and receives an internship opportunity with HUAWEI CLOUD's AI Lab, as well as Huawei Mate20 smartphones and HUAWEI CLOUD vouchers. The first and second runners-up also receive an internship opportunity with HUAWEI CLOUD’s AI Lab, Huawei Mate20 smartphones, and HUAWEI CLOUD vouchers.

HUAWEI CLOUD AI Partners Club launched with 10 AI partners

HUAWEI CLOUD also used the Hong Kong Summit to announce the launch of its AI Partners Club. Ten AI startups have joined the program so far. The AI Partner Cloud is a global program that helps partners build EI-based solutions by providing valuable business, technical, and marketing support, including advanced training and consulting and incubation services. To meet the varied needs of startups, HUAWEI CLOUD AI partner cloud is composed of AI incubator, AI intelligent alliance, AI technical support alliance, and AI consulting service alliance.

The first 10 partners in the program are companies that specialize in deep learning, voice recognition, data analytics, and visual and voice data labelling across the healthcare, retail, campus, education, and fintech industries.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/3/huawei-cloud-new-ai-blockchain-services-hongkong

 

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HUAWEI TV SET TO LAUNCH IN APRIL: FIRST MODELS WILL SPORT 55″ AND 65″ SCREENS
ARGAM ARTASHYAN MARCH 21, 2019




According to the latest news, on March 20, a Huawei TV supply chain executive revealed that Huawei will launch its first TV in April this year. There will be two models with 55 inches and 65 inches. The 55-inch screen supplier is BOE, while the 65-inch is made by Huaxing Optoelectronics. At first sight, seems Huawei has ordered the displays of its TVs to different manufacturers. But the truth is this OEM acquired by BOE as well. So we can state the first bunch of the Huawei’s television equipment is manufactured by BOE.

Previously, Huawei’s consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong said during the AWE that Huawei would not bring a traditional TV product. Currently, the company is studying large-screen products with TV functions and will launch model products this year. And this so-called large-screen product is very likely to be the much-talked TV product of Huawei.

The senior executive of the supply chain revealed to the media that ‘Huawei’s TV has a goal to sell 10 million units a year, which is equivalent to being the first in the TV industry.’ The above-mentioned supply chain executives said that this TV may be equipped with dual cameras. There are also game and social features.

Moreover, we have heard the first Huawei’s TV will have a screen size of 65 inches and will support 5G. Now, if the former news is denied, the latter still can appear on the upcoming models. The abovementioned persons also said that ‘not only home TV but Huawei will also expand its business to more commercial TV fields.’ Some media have asked the relevant person in charge of Huawei’s consumer business to verify the news, but Huawei declined to comment. Anyway, we have to wait for this product a little. As said, it’s set to come next month.

https://www.gizchina.com/2019/03/21...il-first-models-will-sport-55-and-65-screens/