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Huawei plans cloud computing nodes in Brazil and Chile

2019-04-03 08:34:19 China Daily Editor : Gu Liping

Visitors learn about Huawei Technologies Co's cloud service products during an industry expo in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]

Huawei Technologies Co will soon build cloud computing nodes or availability zones in Brazil and Chile, as part of the Chinese technology giant' efforts to expand its presence in the global cloud arena.

Zheng Yelai, president of Huawei's cloud business, said the Shenzhen-based company has been partnering with Spanish telecom carrier, Telefonica, to operate cloud services in Latin America, but as Huawei's consumer business, including smartphones, is becoming increasingly popular in that region, it has decided to build its own cloud computing nodes.

"We have had a fabulous performance in foreign countries. By the end of this year, Huawei Cloud's overseas performance is likely to exceed that of other Chinese cloud service providers," Zheng said, without providing more details.

According to him, the company now has a sound cloud infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, with three availability zones in Singapore, three in Hong Kong and two in Thailand.

The comments came after Huawei officially started operating public cloud services in South Africa in December. It is deploying a regional data center in Johannesburg, from which its cloud services can cover neighboring countries and regions. More data centers are also in the pipeline to extend its reach across the continent.

In Europe, Huawei is also partnering with local telecom carriers such as Orange SA to offer cloud services or build up their public cloud capabilities with the help of Huawei technology.

Huawei is the world's largest telecom equipment maker and a leading smartphone maker. Its products and services are already available in more than 170 countries and regions. "We are leveraging our years of partnership with foreign telecom carriers to better localize our cloud services," Zheng said.

Huawei has been working hard to beef up its competence. By the end of 2018, it has developed more than 160 cloud services and 140 solutions for a wide range of sectors, which according to Zheng enables Huawei Cloud to cater to varied market demands.

The global public cloud market will surge to $206.2 billion in 2019, rising 17 percent year-on-year from the expected $175.8 billion in 2018, market research company Gartner Inc forecast.

Chinese companies Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd are also working hard to build more overseas cloud computing nodes, to compete with global giants including Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.

Charlie Dai, principal analyst at market research company Forrester, said the company's latest report found that in the third quarter of 2018, Huawei has executed a visionary product strategy that enabled it to take the top slot in China.

In the global market, Huawei is strategically opening up new regions and cloud services, aiming to strike the right balance between its partnership with global telecommunication providers and its own cloud operations expansion, Dai said.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-04-03/detail-ifzfwnmy4091427.shtml

 

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Dongfeng Motor, Huawei to Build IoV City in Hubei Province

ZHOU FANG
DATE : APR 03 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

Dongfeng Motor, Huawei to Build IoV City in Hubei Province

(Yicai Global) April 3 -- Dongfeng Motor, one of China's biggest state-backed carmakers, is joining hands with telecommunications equipment titan Huawei Technologies to build an Internet of Vehicles spanning Xiangyang city in Hubei province.

The two companies and Xiangyang government penned a CNY3 billion (USD446 million) framework deal for the project, named Xiangyang Smart Travel, yesterday. It will include four sub-projects: smart car valley, smart travel, smart logistics and smart transport cloud platform.

Industry researchers forecast China's networked intelligent vehicle market will be worth CNY100 billion (USD15 billion) by 2020, which is luring in many major carmakers, internet-focused companies and city governments to battle for a slice of the pie.

The trio in Xiangyang plan to build a digitized test track at first, before turning this into a virtual test track and then creating an autonomous driving demonstration zone. This will be a full-fledged smart vehicle ecosystem covering development, production, testing and supporting services to attract up- and downstream companies to the city and complete the smart car valley project.

Dongfeng will provide its automotive research and development and manufacturing to the table, while Huawei offers its cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things technology, fifth-generation wireless networks and artificial intelligence. Xiangyang is already renowned for its vehicle production and testing.

The firms also plan to start commercial operation of an intelligent vehicle network in Xiangyang, which will integrate cars, charging, parking and recovery services.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/dongfeng-motor-huawei-to-build-iov-city-in-hubei-province

 

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Sunrise and Huawei Jointly Announce 5G FWA Pioneer Users in Switzerland

Apr 04, 2019

[Zurich, Switzerland, April 4, 2019] Sunrise announced to provide Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service to 5G pioneer users in Switzerland. This is a new milestone for Sunrise in 5G， firstly to provide 5G FWA service for its individual and business customers in Switzerland. Sunrise also plans to launch 5G smartphone and 5G HD IPTV services in 2019.

With Sunrise 5G FWA service，families and SMEs (Small and Middle Enterprises) are able to enjoy high speed internet services and enter the digital age without the hindrance of fiber connection. This is an important step for Sunrise to realize its “5G for people” strategy in response to the rapidly growing data traffic and the digital divide between urban and rural areas.

With Huawei 5G E2E network products and terminals, Sunrise achieved quick launch and easy deployment across Switzerland. During the 2019 Mobile World Congress, Sunrise and Huawei have jointly won the GSMA award of "Best Mobile Operator Service for Consumers" in recognition of the commercial and social value of Sunrise 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Service.

Sunrise CEO Olaf Swantee said that "With Huawei innovative 5G solution and global hands-on 5G deployment experience, we are strongly confident to provide best user experience to our customers that underpins our position as No.1 5G provider in Switzerland."

Yang Chaobin, president of Huawei 5G Product Line, said:“ 5G global commercial deployment will start in 2019. Huawei has developed the most powerful, simple, and intelligent 5G network technologies. We are willing to support Sunrise and other strategic partners worldwide to provide 5G services to people with faster speeds, lower latency, and more secure connections.”

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/4/huawei-sunrise-5g-fwa-pioneer-users-switzerland

 

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Huawei Intelligent Computing Commands Global No. 1 Growth, Ranking Top 3 by Revenue Q4 2018, Gartner Reports

Apr 08, 2019

[Shenzhen, China, April 8, 2019] Gartner, a global leading IT research and advisory company, has issued a press release titled Gartner Says Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 17.8% in the Fourth Quarter of 2018, While Shipments Increased 8.5%. The press release data shows that Huawei servers ranked global No. 3 by revenue in Q4 2018, with a year-on-year (YoY) growth rate of 45.9%, the highest growth rate for servers in the world1.

According to the release, the global server revenue was USD21.862 billion in Q4 2018, a YoY increase of 17.8%. A total of 3,472,886 servers were shipped globally, increased by 8.5% YoY. In all of 2018, worldwide server shipments grew 13.1 percent and server revenue increased 30.1 percent compared with full-year 2017.

As industries push deeper into the digital transformation journey, the intelligent transformation is yet to unfold its full potential. It is foreseeable that the IT infrastructure scale of enterprises will maintain huge momentum in the next few years. As this trend continuously gains traction, the requirements for IT infrastructure are ever on the rise. Traditional data centers face operating expenditure (OPEX) stress from power consumption, O&M manpower and costs, and equipment footprint. This is when intelligent transformation comes into play, to effectively mitigate these issues. Meanwhile, AI-facing computing demands are growing explosively.

Huawei has been closely observing this trend and has deep insight into the challenges confronting the intelligent transformation of data centers. Huawei Intelligent Computing acts upon this insight by deploying its R&D initiatives on three fronts: intelligent acceleration engine, intelligent management engine, and innovative data center solution. Huawei has upgraded its x86-based traditional servers to intelligent servers. In addition, Huawei provides tiered solutions covering the single-node, large-scale, and ultra-large-scale deployment scenarios, perfectly addressing the intelligent transformation requirements of data centers from multiple dimensions.

What’s more, Huawei beefs up the game with the launch of the Ascend 310/910 AI chipsets and the Kunpeng 920 ARM-based CPU in October 2018 and January 2019 respectively. These core chipsets boost Huawei's intelligent computing offerings: the Atlas AI computing platform and TaiShan series servers. The broadened product portfolio covers the Cloud-Edge-Device scenarios, meeting diversified computing requirements.

Huawei Intelligent Computing is advancing the computing industry frontiers with its x86 FusionServer Pro, TaiShan ARM-based servers, and the Ascend-powered Atlas products. Huawei is well positioned to drive the intelligent transformation of data centers for customers and facilitate industry transformation.

Also according to Gartner's 4Q18 report, Huawei ranks No. 1 for multiple consecutive quarters both by shipments of blade servers and four-socket servers in the Chinese market. All these statistics well manifest the prowess and strength of Huawei Intelligent Computing.

Source 1: "Gartner Says Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 17.8% in the Fourth Quarter of 2018, While Shipments Increased 8.5%" March 18, 2019

www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-03-18-gartner-says-worldwide-server-revenue-grew-17-8-per-c

 

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Huawei Launches Industry's First Intelligent Metro Router for the 5G and Cloud Era: the NetEngine 8000 Series

Apr 09, 2019

[Paris, France, April 9, 2019] Huawei has launched the industry’s first intelligent metro router for 5G at the MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019 in Paris. The NetEngine 8000 is designed to deliver the diversified services and massive number of connections required in the 5G and cloud era. The NetEngine 8000 series can also help build a simplified and intelligent metro network encompassing a converged transport solution, ultra-large capacity, end-to-end SRv6, and full-lifecycle automation.

Kevin Hu, President of Huawei Data Communication Product Line, releases the NetEngine 8000 series

The NetEngine 8000 series comes just in time to meet what is expected to be a huge demand for 5G ready solutions. According to research from GSMA, by 2025 there will be 1.3 billion 5G users and 1.36 billion 5G mobile devices worldwide, with 40% 5G network coverage. Gartner forecasts that the number of global IoT connections will reach 2.5 billion by 2021.

"Years of IP industry experience have enabled Huawei to innovatively develop the industry’s first intelligent metro router that offers with the largest capacity, SRv6-ready, and full-lifecycle intelligent automation,” said Kevin Hu, President of Huawei’s Data Communications Product Line. “Huawei is now the leader in intelligent IP networks.”

With the explosive growth driven by 5G, cloud VR/AR, and enterprise private line services, metro networks are facing significant challenges:

• 10GE metro cannot meet the 10-fold traffic growth expected over the next five years
• Today’s metro network cannot support the expected 1000-fold increase in the number of connections, fueled by the IoT and video services.
• Low efficiency network operations cannot address the proactive O&M and intelligent automation required by cloud services.

The 5G and cloud era is already underway. IP networks are fundamental for 5G infrastructure. Ultra large bandwidths and application-level SLA are required to deliver the massive connectivity services needed for 5G vertical industries. The intelligent and all-service-in-one metro network is set to become an industry trend. The three key characteristics of metro networks in the 5G and cloud era are: simplified networks, intelligent connectivity, and committed high availability.

New platform: industry’s largest capacity with 14.4T/slot, and all-service in one

The NetEngine 8000 series provides the industry’s largest capacity with a 14.4T/slot, which is 1.5 times the industry average and highest density - up to 36 x 400GE ports or 72 x 100GE ports. NetEngine 8000 series features a compact design –powerful heat dissipation, efficient power supply and a converged platform with SR, PE, and DC-GW together to simplify the network site and reduce cost.

New protocol stack supports SRv6

The NetEngine 8000 series offer SRv6 capability, which can effectively cope with the massive connections required, provides an improved user experience, and helps operators achieve a smooth evolution from MPLS to SRv6. SRv6 is based on native IPv6 and meets the requirements for massive connections. SRv6 also provides expansion capabilities to implement automatic cross-domain connection and minute-level service provisioning, achieving one-click connection to cloud of service configurations, performing service awareness with tenant/app level SLA assurance.

Full lifecycle automation

The NetEngine 8000 series use the Network Cloud Engine (NCE) to establish intelligent connections - a new O&M system with high availability to implement full-lifecycle automation. The NCE + SRv6 can implement 50ms protection, minute-level traffic optimization, second-level fault identification, and minute-level fault locating for any topology. It significantly improves network availability and helps operators expand their business in vertical industries in the 5G and cloud era.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-eve...ntelligent-metro-router-netengine-8000-series

 

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Foxconn's ‘iPhone city’ shifts focus to orders for Huawei as industry chain upgrades

By Wang Yi in Zhengzhou Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/10


‘iPhone city’ shifts focus to orders for Huawei as industry chain upgrades

A view of the R&D center of Foxconn Zhengzhou Science Park on Wednesday Photo: Wang Yi/GT


Foxconn Zhengzhou Science Park, the biggest iPhone factory in the world, is undergoing a transition as it recovers from the smartphone industry downturn in 2018 and moves into the era of fifth-generation (5G) networks.

Analysts said that similar transitions are taking place along the entire industry chain in China, as many key links are making breakthroughs to embrace the next boom.

Some sections of the "iPhone city" in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan Province, which once reportedly manufactured half of the iPhones in the world, are cutting night shifts as the iPhone loses charm among Chinese consumers.

A worker surnamed Jia who has been employed at the factory for four years told the Global Times on Tuesday that the plant's daily orders have fallen from more than 12,000 units to 6,000 units in the past few months, and the night shift will end as of Wednesday.

While some sections of the city are experiencing hard times, others are holding steady and even expanding.

Foxconn won orders from Huawei, and in February it recruited 50,000 people in Zhengzhou for this work, according to media reports. The first batch of 6 million of Huawei's P30 and P30 pro models, which will be launched on the domestic market in Shanghai on Thursday, were made at Zhengzhou as well.

An employee of an upstream industry equipment supplier surnamed Li told the Global Times on Tuesday that he heard the new Huawei units had been assembled at the G section, which launched production in 2018.

Another employee from an equipment supplier, surnamed Zhang, said on Wednesday that the K and L sections are also making Huawei devices now.

"Foxconn has already started turning to Huawei, as it is gearing up to launch new devices to win the 5G race and top the world's smartphone manufacturers," Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

"As a developed assembler, it's not hard for Foxconn to update an assembly line. It's not even hard to update 4G smartphone assembly lines to produce 5G devices," Xiang said.

About a dozen workers at the Foxconn Zhengzhou plant told the Global Times on Wednesday that the current order drop is just a normal part of seasonal ups and downs.

"After Apple launches a new device, earlier models usually become more popular as prices are cut," said Jia. "That's been the pattern for several years."

However, the situation is not the same this time. Apple launched no new devices at the spring event in March, and it may also miss launching a 5G device this year, media reports said.

Foxconn is also reportedly planning a semiconductor factory in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, 21jingji.com reported on Wednesday. Analysts said that Foxconn's semiconductor company aims to build a complete industry chain.

The entire industry chain of China's smartphone manufacturing sector is being upgraded, although it's still not strong in terms of core parts, Fu Liang, a senior industry analyst, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

"Huawei has developed its own chipsets, and BOE Technology Group Co has made breakthroughs in displays as well. In general, our industry chain capacity is improving," Fu said.

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Make Foxconn great again

 

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Huawei launches AI computing platform Atlas

2019-04-11 00:48:09 China Daily Editor : Zhao Yuning

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd launched an artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform in Shenzhen on Wednesday, as the tech giant beefs up efforts to enhance its intelligent computing capability to help industries turn "digital and smart".

Atlas, as the platform is called, is powered by Ascend series AI processors, which Huawei unveiled in October. It will become a key driver for establishing the company's AI ecosystem and achieving its aim of creating a "fully connected intelligent world", the company said.

"Huawei's strategic vision is to work with partners from various industries to bring every person, every family, every organization into a digital world and create a fully connected intelligence world," Hou Jinlong, president of Huawei's Cloud & AI product and service, said at the Huawei Intelligent Computing Congress 2019, held in Shenzhen on Wednesday.

As one of the platform's series products, the Atlas 200 AI acceleration module, which is half the size of a credit card, enables real-time analysis of 16-channel high-definition video. It can be installed in such devices as drones and cameras, with a power consumption of only 10 watts.

The intelligent computing platform can be applied in a range of industries, including transportation, medical care, retail and finance, to help them become "smart".

In transportation, for example, Atlas, with its super algorithm, can help ease traffic jams by controlling traffic lights according to different traffic conditions.

"With the help of the Atlas platform, traffic delays in Shenzhen's Bantian area during rush hours have been reduced by 17.7 percent," Ma Haixu, president of Huawei's intelligent computing business unit, said.

As a demonstration of Huawei's push to promote its computing business, the company set up an intelligent computing business unit in December, with the aim of providing support for the advent of the internet of things era.

According to a report from Tractica, a Boulder, Colorado-based market intelligence firm that focuses on human interaction with technology, the global AI market is expected to hit $37 billion in revenue by 2025, a 57-fold jump from $644 million in 2016.

In China, AI-related industries are projected to generate up to 26 percent of its gross domestic product by 2030, the report said, adding that the largest sector gains will likely be in retail, financial services and healthcare.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2019-04-11/detail-ifzhhxra9208682.shtml

 

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Huawei taking another step towards having its own OS

Huawei launches Ark Compiler – aims to improve Android system efficiency

By Simran Singh
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Apr 11, 2019

At the product launch event in China, Huawei announced a new Ark Compiler aiming to improve Android system efficiency. Huawei’s consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong says the compiler will make Android App compilation more fluent. It will facilitate the interpretation and execution of the whole Android compilation process.

Ark Compiler

The Ark Compiler brings support for architecture level optimizations resulting in significant performance improvements. It will make the Android system more responsive and robust against different actions. Yu reveals that the new compiler can improve system fluency by 24%, system response by 44% and enhance operations of third-party apps by 60%. It will further strengthen multitasking by optimizing several processes and resulting in better speed and performance. Improved battery performance, faster execution speeds and compatibility across all new Android devices term Ark as the best alternative for ART (Android Runtime).

Huawei won’t hold any usage rights for Ark Compiler, which means it will be open source for the industry. Huawei expects app developers to soon start using the new refined compiler for Android.

Currently, Android is using the inbuilt ART virtual machine to compile the application code into machine code. The virtual machine dynamically loads and execute the machine code on the Android system. It is 2x faster than the Dalvik VM which was found in the earlier Android builds.

The Ark compiler will further improve the efficiency of the Android system. It will solve problems currently faced by ART. Technical details for the Ark compiler are missing right now.

https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/04/11/huawei-ark-compiler-launch/

 

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Huawei with China Telecom and State Grid Jointly Complete the World's First 5G SA Electricity Slice Test

Apr 10, 2019

[Nanjing, China, April 10, 2019] China Telecom Jiangsu, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) Nanjing Power Supply Company, and Huawei completed the industry's first electricity network slice test under a real power grid environment in Nanjing. This is also the world's first electricity slice to comply with the latest 5G SA specifications released by 3GPP. The success of this test marks a milestone in an in-depth exploration of 5G vertical industry applications.

The SA electricity slice fully utilizes the millisecond-level latency advantage on 5G networks and SLA assurance of network slicing. It enhances bidirectional communication between power grids and end users, and ensures precise management of small power units on power grid terminals of overloaded power grids. These advantages help minimize the economic and social impact caused by power outages.

Test network for the electricity slice

Huawei teamed up with China Telecom Nanjing and SGCC Nanjing to use electric terminals for end-to-end field tests on the 5G SA electricity slice. After deploying 5G base stations in the Drum-Tower Square and Lishui District, China Telecom Nanjing performed indoor and outdoor local-end, mid-end, remote-end, and obstacle blocking tests. An approximately 35 ms end-to-end latency, which may fluctuate slightly from time to time, was discovered in the processes of power server processing, network instruction transmission, and load control terminal processing. Slice isolation was also fully verified. The slice was proven to meet mission-critical requirements for millisecond-level precise management of load processing units running on telecom networks.

Zhan Mingfei, Deputy General Manager (GM) of the Government and Enterprise Customer Department of China Telecom Jiangsu, said, "This successful test is a breakthrough for SA networks in the 5G vertical market. We will continue to collaborate with SGCC and Huawei to leverage key national research and China Telecom's 5G trial resources to make innovations and build a 5G electricity ecosystem. The painstaking experiment with the 5G electricity slice will also provide China Telecom with extensive experience in providing high standard 5G solutions for diversified vertical industries."

Gao Shengyu, Deputy GM of the Nanjing Power Supply Company, commented, "5G electricity slicing can provide important communications system assurance to keep up with new power grid service requirements, service models, and operation modes. In the future, we at SGCC hope to deepen our collaboration with China Telecom and Huawei to enhance visual feedback of end terminals, continue promoting construction of ubiquitous IoT dedicated to the electricity industry, and build world-class Internet of energy (IoE) enterprises that are pivotal, platform-based, and sharing-centric."

Qiu Xuefeng, President of Huawei's 5G Core Network, added, "The core network is the key to developing 5G network slicing in terms of on-demand network definition, fast deployment, automated operations, end-to-end SLA assurance, and capability exposure. Huawei has been investing heavily in research and development of 5G network architecture evolution and slicing technologies. Additionally, we have been keeping in touch and exchanging thoughts with vertical industries to prompt vertical applications for network slicing. The SA-based electricity slice test is a landmark for 5G applications in vertical industries and will set a good example for more industry applications."

China Telecom, SGCC, and Huawei launched the innovative electricity slicing project in September 2017. In January 2018, the three parties jointly released the report 5G Network Slicing Enabling the Smart Grid. In June of the same year, Huawei demonstrated its service design for electricity slicing. The three parties also won the first prize in the second "Bloom Cup" 5G Application Project Contest in 2018.

After the phase-1 test is complete, the three parties will continue to deepen collaboration and further promote 5G commercialization tests in the electricity industry. They plan to test more application scenarios and slices, such as smart monitoring, in the second phase under a power usage environment with live network users.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/4/huawei-sgcc-first-5g-sa-power-grid-slicing

 

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Huawei Could Best Apple, Samsung Phone Sales Next Year, Exec Director Says

LI NA
DATE : APR 12 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

Huawei Could Best Apple, Samsung Phone Sales Next Year, Exec Director Says

(Yicai Global) April 12 -- Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, could outrank Samsung and Apple to top the global smartphone sales charts next year, according to Executive Director Richard Yu.

One in every three phones sold in China is either a Huawei or its sub-brand Honor, Yu, also chief executive of Huawei Consumer Business Group, told Yicai Global. He wants to see that figure rise to one in two, and reckons that if momentum in sales growth continues that his firm will become the world's largest smartphone maker by sales.

The Shenzhen-based firm delivered 206 million handsets worldwide in 2018, according to its annual report published last month. Revenue neared USD53 billion and its consumer business took over its carrier division as the company's largest income source.

It currently ranks third among global phonemakers, behind Samsung and Apple, according to data from IDC and other market researchers.

"But this was never our plan," Yu said. "Market share is not the goal we pursue."

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei gave Yu absolute free reign over the group's consumer business unit at an internal meeting earlier this month.

"In terms of organizational structure and salary distribution, do as you wish," Ren said on April 4. "You will be given five years to try and build an invincible army."

He also outlined a company-wide revenue goal of between USD250 billion and USD300 billion for 2023, and wants to see at least USD150 billion coming from the consumer division, a target Yu believes is challenging.

Chipping In

Yu, known in Chinese as Yu Chengdong, also confirmed that Huawei is open to selling its fifth-generation network semiconductors -- the first time he has said so explicitly.

Huawei Technologies' rotating Chief Executive Xu Zhijun, or Eric Xu, said at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2018 that the company had no plans to sell its Kirin chips. Though an unidentified source at the company recently said if Huawei were to sell the semiconductors, it would only be to Apple, according to Chinese news outlet Phoenix New Media.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/hu...sung-phone-sales-next-year-exec-director-says

 

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GlobalData Ranks Huawei NCE an Industry Leader in WAN SDN Controllers

Apr 15, 2019

[Shenzhen, China, April 15, 2019] Huawei's Network Cloud Engine (NCE) eclipsed a field of 10 mainstream WAN SDN controllers and was ranked the only leader in WAN SDN controllers by GlobalData, in its March 2019 report titled "WAN SDN Controller: Competitive Landscape Assessment."

GlobalData is a world-leading provider of data insight solutions, with 600+ expert analysts and consultants globally serving 4,000 of the world's largest organizations, covering more than 160 countries and tracking more than 500,000 companies.

In the report, GlobalData defines six buying criteria (namely, product scope, open environment, product performance, major system components, solution breadth, and deployment readiness), with ratings for each defined as leader, very strong, strong, competitive, and vulnerable. Using these criteria and ratings, GlobalData evaluates and analyzes WAN SDN controllers that function as network management and control platforms and provides comprehensive evaluation results. In the product performance, solution breadth, and deployment readiness categories, Huawei NCE achieved the highest rating of leader. And with its very strong performance in the other three categories, Huawei is ranked as the only leader provider in WAN SDN controllers.

NCE is the industry's first network automation platform that integrates management, control, analysis, and AI functions for operators and enterprise digital transformation. In the southbound direction, NCE implements centralized management, control, and analysis of entire networks, and enables resource cloudification, full lifecycle automation, and intelligent closed-loop management driven by analysis of business and service-intents data. In the northbound direction, NCE provides open network APIs and IT integration to support B2C and B2B e-commerce services and multi-tenant management. With Huawei's NCE, operators and enterprises can build automated and intelligent networks centered on user experience.

Some of the key advantages offered by Huawei NCE, as mentioned in the GlobalData report, are as follows: supports integrated network management, control, and analysis to achieve comprehensive automation; applies to all-around application scenarios, such as transport, WAN, DC, and IoT; provides open APIs to connect to third-party applications and devices; and supports various security options along with strong high-availability capabilities.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/4/globaldata-huawei-nce-wan-sdn-controllers

 

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lol even poland, their most loyal b1tch in europe is dumping 'em

Poland to hold off blanket ban on Huawei 5G gear due to cost concerns
https://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKCN1RS0QI-OCATC

 

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Huawei Has Won 40 5G Commercial Contracts, Chair Says

LI NA
DATE : APR 16 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

Huawei Has Won 40 5G Commercial Contracts, Chair Says


(Yicai Global) April 16 -- Huawei Technologies has secured 40 commercial contracts for fifth-generation mobile networks, Rotating Chairman Hu Houkun said at the Chinese telecom equipment maker's global analyst summit.

Huawei expects to have 6.5 million 5G base stations and 2.8 billion users worldwide in 2025, covering 58 percent of the world's population, Hu said at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen. Its strategy is to help customers build a simpler, stronger and safer 5G, he added.

5G's transmission speed is expected to be at least 10 times faster than 4G wireless technology and will be essential to the connectivity of devices.

Hu gave the example of live broadcasts to help explain the difference between 5G and previous technologies. Before 5G, images were transmitted through fiber-optic cables, limiting the camera operator's movements. But in the 5G era, wireless cameras are used and video playback speeds are faster.

To garner 500 million users, it took 3G technology 10 years and 4G, 5 years. 5G will achieve the same in just three years, Hu said.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/huawei-has-won-40-5g-commercial-contracts-chair-says

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lol even poland, their most loyal b1tch in europe is dumping 'em

LOL. Loyalty to master is only that much.

 

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Innovation has key role in breaking tech barriers

2019-04-17 08:22:17 China Daily Editor : Li Yan

A visitor tests a Huawei VR device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb 28, 2019. (Photo/Xinhua)

Huawei Technologies Co is seeking to steer innovation by investing $300 million annually to fund academic research in basic science and technologies.

This is part of the Chinese company's broad effort to move beyond current technological limits to seek cutting-edge technologies for the next five to 10 years.

Xu Wenwei, director of the board at Huawei and president of the company's newly established Institute of Strategic Research, said: "Huawei will work with universities and research institutes to drive innovation in theories and basic technologies, and light the way for the industry and the world at large."

To drive industry innovation and upgrading, Huawei is committed to leading the industry in five areas: redefining the technical architecture, redefining the product architecture, leading the pace of industry development, setting a new industry direction, and fostering a new industry, the company said in a statement.

According to the Shenzhen-based company, the wide adoption of artificial intelligence is accelerating cloud adoption in enterprises. And it considers cloud competition to actually be competition in AI.

"Our strategic investment in AI focuses on two areas, namely boosting computing power and promoting AI application scenarios," Xu said.

Huawei is now investing in atomic-scale manufacturing to push the limits of Moore's Law－the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years, as the precision of manufacturing technology has advanced from the macro level to the micro (nano) level, and is now facing obstacles.

In 2018, Huawei's R&D spending reached 101.5 billion yuan ($15.1 billion), accounting for around 14 percent of its revenue.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-04-17/detail-ifzhhxra9211907.shtml

 

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Huawei to Work with Navinfo on 5G Autopilot, IoV

TANG SHIHUA
DATE : APR 17 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

Huawei to Work with Navinfo on 5G Autopilot, IoV

(Yicai Global) April 17 -- Huawei Technologies will work with Chinese traffic information services provider Navinfo to develop autopilot and Internet of Vehicles technologies using fifth-generation wireless networks to help make the car industry smarter and better-connected.

Navinfo inked a strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen-based Huawei recently, the Beijing-based firm said in a statement.

The two will combine their technological strengths in cloud platforms, autopilot services, IoV, vehicle-infrastructure and other areas, while also exploring joint global marketing.

The pair will work together to develop a cloud service platform capable of dynamic and quick map updates for cars while receiving and processing various data from sensors synchronously.

They will also integrate Huawei's Mobile Data Center and vehicle-based communication with Navinfo's autopilot map service to explore a new business model. They will develop the service and overall navigation solutions and explore augmented reality-based navigation together.

Huawei will not pursue car manufacturing and will focus on information and communication technology to help carmakers make their models better, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of the company said at the Auto Shanghai 2019 industry fair today.

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