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There’s no way this could be commercialized profitably, they could do with acquiring snapdragon but 45 or 28nm chips, they stand no chance in today’s market
I think the Chinese chips are aimed first for full self sufficiency and then profitability/conquering the markets. Besides, the chips could be used for other goods besides consumer items.
 
That's what someone who knows nothing about semiconductors would say
Well I admit I know next to nothing about em, but what I know is that thinner packages are efficient according to Moore’s law? Care to explain?
 
Huawei achieves world's first low-latency network trial over 2000 km transmission distance
2020-08-15 15:38:28 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

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Huawei today announced that it has worked with research partners to complete a deterministic WAN innovation trial, achieving the world's first 100-microsecond delay jitter control over a transmission distance of more than 2,000 kilometers.

According to Huawei, this has laid an important foundation for production control and high-precision services such as ultra-long-range industrial interconnections and high-precision vehicle networking.

Currently, the number of global machine communication connections has approached 30 billion, and is growing rapidly year by year, and is expected to reach 10,000 billion connections in 2035.

According to Huawei, the communication mode and traffic model of intelligent machines will change fundamentally, in which remote control, intelligent manufacturing and other data communication scenarios put forward high deterministic bearing requirements of ultra-low latency and ultra-low jitter on the network.

Relying on the China Environment for Network Innovations (CENI) and the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Test Environment, Huawei built a large-scale test environment covering 13 core nodes in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Hefei.

This is basis to achieving more than 2,000 km transmission distance, less than 100 microseconds of delay jitter control, verifying the deterministic IP forwarding technology in the WAN environment, Huawei said.

Liu Yunjie, director of Zijinshan Laboratory and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out that the new deterministic network technology can achieve high-precision control of network bandwidth, path, delay and jitter to meet the microsecond delay jitter protection needs of future industrial automation, industrial remote operation, holographic communication, vehicle road collaboration and other services.

Huawei's deterministic IP forwarding technology has been fully verified in the large-scale test environment, demonstrating better high-precision deterministic forwarding performance," said Kevin Hu, president of Huawei's data communications product line.
 
Huawei may soon launch HarmonyOS-powered phones
2020-08-16 16:28:42 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

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With the rapid growth of the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem and external environmental pressures, Huawei has begun to consider plans for more devices that it can control itself, such as HarmonyOS-powered handsets, Tencent Tech said, citing supply chain sources.

The latest update from the supply chain mentions that Huawei hasn't given up on building HarmonyOS-based phones, the report said, adding that one of the main reasons for its delay is that the ecosystem doesn't have enough apps.

Fewer apps could have led to poor user acceptance, but with the rapid growth of HMS, this issue has been addressed in a big way, the report said.

A number of analysts, including Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, have previously claimed that Huawei is building a HarmonyOS-powered phone, but it's unclear when it will be launched. Increasingly hostile external conditions, however, could accelerate this, the report said.

Huawei Consumer Business CEO Richard Yu has previously said that Huawei's HMS ecosystem is currently ranked in the top three globally behind Android and iOS.

With continued development in the following years, Huawei HMS is expected to become the most popular ecosystem for users in the global market in the future, and the AppGallery integrated in the ecosystem is the third largest app store in the world after Google Play and Apple iOS.

Last week, Huawei director and director of the Strategic Research Institute Xu Wenwei said that HMS has more than 700 million monthly active users worldwide and 1.6 million registered developers. He said more than 80,000 apps have been integrated into Huawei's HMS Core, and the number of corresponding apps is growing rapidly.

Huawei has recently announced HMS Core 5.0, which opens up its capabilities to cover services in seven areas: App Services, Graphics, Media, AI, Smart Device, Security, System, and more. Huawei's "Core-Terminal-Cloud" capabilities are more fully open.

In Xu Wenwei's view, the future model leader in the OS field should use openness to fight against closure and collaboration to fight against fragmentation.

Huawei's industry proposition is to be open and open-source, build OS ecology together, and support distributed full-scene terminals.

He also revealed that Huawei will hold its developer conference "HDC Together" in Songshan Lake, Dongguan from September 10 to September 12 this year, during which the most important new version of HarmonyOS will be unveiled, namely HarmonyOS 2.0.
 
Huawei Kunpeng cloud phone starts public beta, 99 RMB per month per phone
2020-09-02 7:16:00 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

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On September 1, Huawei Cloud announced the start of public beta testing of the world's first "cloud phone" based on ARM chips.

Huawei debuted the Kunpeng phone in March this year, a cloud-based virtual phone based on the Huawei Kunpeng processor and Android.

It is based on Huawei Cloud Kunpeng Bare Metal Server, a virtual cloud server with a native Android operating system and virtual phone functionality.

As a new type of application, cloud phone plays an extension and expansion role to the physical phone, and can be used in scenarios such as application smart hosting, cloud hand games, crowd broadcasting and mutual entertainment, and mobile office.

According to Huawei, Kunpeng cloud phone adopts self-developed Kunpeng chip and end cloud isomorphism, which can improve the performance of virtual phone by 80 percent compared to traditional simulator solution.

It has massive elastic public cloud server resources, cloud phone can be seamlessly connected with public cloud services.It also has professional-grade GPU hardware acceleration, which makes it possible to run large games with ease.Users can also adjust the cloud phone specifications.

Huawei offers the option to get a free cloud phone worth RMB 5,950, but the Huawei Cloud Kunpeng phone is mainly targeting paid users and comes in two recommended configurations.

rx1.cp.c60.d10.e1v1: For a monthly server cost of RMB 5,950, you get 60 cloud phone instances.That means each phone costs as low as RMB 99/month, they have a resolution of 1280x720, have a 2-core CPU, 3.5GB of RAM and 10GB of storage.

kg1.cp.c100.d10SSD.e1v1: For a monthly server fee of 10,700 RMB, you can get 100 cloud phone instances for as low as 107 RMB per month, with a 1280x720 resolution, 2-core CPU, 4.2GB of RAM and 10GB of storage.
 
Huawei to continue investment in chip arm Hisilicon despite US ban: Rotating CEO
Source: Global Times Published: 2020/9/3 11:03:04

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A visitor experiences Huawei's 5G Mate30 Pro at a press conference in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Oct. 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)

Chinese tech company Huawei will keep investing in its chip arm Hisilicon and help partners in chip manufacturing, production equipment and raw materials - areas in which the Chinese tech firm is restricted by the US - to build and improve their ability, said Huawei's rotating CEO Guo Ping.

The comment was made during Guo's recent meeting with Huawei's new employees. The meeting's memo was published on Huawei's online community Xinsheng Shequ Wednesday and titled "Don't waste the opportunity of a crisis," amid US' relentless crackdown on the Chinese tech firm and as a chip ban, which is set to take effect in mid-September, draws near.

The tougher US "sanction" on Huawei in May has created certain difficulties for the Chinese tech behemoth, but such difficulty is not an insurmountable one - it's just an issue involving technology, cost and time, according to Guo.

Guo admitted that the US-led crackdown on Kirin chipset will pose "certain difficulties" for the company's high-end smartphone business, but noted that he has confidence the issue "could be addressed."

"Hisilicon will grow stronger several years later," Guo said. He also noted that Washington must have "made up its mind" to destroy Beijing's 5G rollout as China has been leading the industry development, which could threaten the US desire to lead the world.

US-based memory chip manufacturer Micron recently said that the firm will not be able to continue to supply Huawei after September 14, the date when the shipment ban formally comes into effect. This marks the second global firm that fired shots at Huawei, after Taiwan-based chip manufacture TSMC confirmed that it does not plan to ship any wafers to Huawei after September 14.

It is not clear whether more chip makers will announce supply cut to Huawei as deadline approaches.

Amid the US moves that could cut Huawei from accessing to Google's Android updates and security patches, Huawei launched its self-developed HarmonyOS last year.

"It's not an easy decision for us, as a smartphone company, to develop our own ecosystem Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). It's very difficult and very challenging. But we delivered a better-than-expected one-year transcript," Guo said.

"If Huawei could help Android in achieving success, is there any reason why our own system cannot be a success?" Guo asked. He compared cultivating HMS as a protracted war that Huawei is destined to win in the end.

Huawei has launched a range of devices ranging from smart TV to vehicles that are equipped with its proprietary HarmonyOS. Some analysts expect that riding on the boom of China's 5G network and the expansion of HMS ecosystem, Huawei could launch the HarmonyOS for smartphone as early as the end of 2020.

"It is plausible to have two systems in a world. And Huawei will be able to survive and take the lead even in an extremely hostile environment," Guo said, while stressing the company's commitment to globalization and cooperation.
 
Huawei HarmonyOS website goes live, provides source code download
2020-09-10 20:32:10 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

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Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS 2.0 at its developer conference, and now the operating system's official website is live, along with source code downloads.
HarmonyOS 2.0 is being released today in Developer Beta for large screens, watches, and cars, with a mobile version to be released in December. Next year, Huawei smartphones will fully support HarmonyOS 2.0.

You can find its website here:
https://device.harmonyos.com/en/home

From September 10, HarmonyOS will be open source for large screens, watches, cars, and other terminal devices with 128KB-128MB of memory, in April 2021 will be open source for terminal devices with 128MB-4GB of memory, and after October 2021 will be open source for all devices with more than 4GB of memory.

According to Huawei, HarmonyOS is a "future-proof", distributed operating system for all scenarios (mobile office, sports and health, social communication, media, and entertainment, etc.).

Based on traditional single-device system capabilities, HarmonyOS proposes a distributed concept based on the same set of system capabilities, adapted to multiple terminal forms, and capable of supporting multiple terminal devices.

For consumers, HarmonyOS integrates their various smart devices into a super virtual device, which implements fast connection, capability collaboration, and resource sharing between different devices. This way, services can be seamlessly transferred to a suitable device that delivers a smooth all-scenario experience.

For application developers, HarmonyOS adopts distributed technologies to make application development possible on different device forms, simplifying the development process and reducing the overall cost. With HarmonyOS, you have the choice to focus on upper-layer service logic and develop applications in a much easier and more efficient way.

For device developers, HarmonyOS uses a component-based software design to tailor itself to particular device forms based on their respective resource capabilities and service characteristics.
 
Huawei Says Mate 40 Is First Phone to Support Digital Yuan Wallet

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DATE: 15 HOURS AGO
/ SOURCE: YICAI

Huawei Says Mate 40 Is First Phone to Support Digital Yuan Wallet

Huawei Says Mate 40 Is First Phone to Support Digital Yuan Wallet

(Yicai Global) Oct. 30 -- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies released its Chinese mainland version of the Huawei Mate 40 smartphone today, saying the handset is the first to support a digital yuan wallet.

The Mate 40 has near field communications technology featuring encrypted storage and transactions-between-devices functionality, which allows the use of digital yuan on smartphones, Yu Chengdong, chief executive of the firm’s consumer business group, said at the launch event today.

China is at the international forefront of digital sovereign currency development and has been piloting use of its e-yuan this year, including a recent test with consumers and retailers in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen.

The Mate 40 is priced at between CNY4,999 (USD747) and CNY13,999 (USD2,092) in China, lower than in Europe. Reservations have outstripped supply since the phones were rolled out overseas, so production has been stepped up recently, Yu said.

The Mate 40 will ship with a charger, Yu noted, unlike Apple’s latest iPhone 12 series.

Shenzhen-based Huawei also announced that its smart car system, HiCar, is being used by more than 150 vehicle models. The technology is set to be pre-installed in more than 5 million vehicles next year, said He Gang, president of Huawei's mobile phone product line.

The company unveiled a new smart car solution called HI at the press conference. HI integrates smart cockpits, smart driving, smart networking, smart car cloud, and a complete set of lidar components to help automakers quickly develop smart cars, said Wang Jun from Huawei's smart car solution unit.​

 
Huawei is the largest telecommunication company in the world and an innovation power house. Hence, I thought it would be better to poll the information on Huawei under a thread.

Please do share your findings.

@AndrewJin , @Daniel808 , @Jlaw , @ahojunk , @onebyone

(Tagging just five as I read more than 5 would not reach the target).


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Huawei Acquires British IoT Technology Provider

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Chinese telecom device maker Huawei acquired Neul, a Britain-headquartered Internet of Things technology provider, for USD25 million.

As a company focusing on the research and development of Internet of Things technologies and products, Neul is known for its "Weightless" platform, which offers super-low energy consumption air interfaces for products like smart testers and street lights. It is a new wide-area wireless networking technology designed specifically for the Internet of Things, achieving coverage, battery life, module cost and efficiency goals that far out-reach today's GPRS, 3G, CDMA and LTE WAN solutions.

Huawei recently enhanced its invest77ments in the British Internet of Things industry. The company previously invested USD125 million in the construction of a chip development lab in Bristol and they also promised that the company would make USD1.3 billion local investments in Britain.

The acquisition is a good deal for Neul, which will be able to take advantage of Huawei's resources to become a leading company in the Internet of Things sector; on the other hand, Huawei will benefit from the investment, which help the Chinese company gain an emerging technology with small costs in a foreign land.
Smart move in selling. China is a very huge market.
 
Huawei’s Tablet Sales Jumped Nearly 33% in Third Quarter, IDC Says
XU WEI
DATE: NOV 02 2020
/ SOURCE: YICAI

Huawei’s Tablet Sales Jumped Nearly 33% in Third Quarter, IDC Says
Huawei’s Tablet Sales Jumped Nearly 33% in Third Quarter, IDC Says

(Yicai Global) Nov. 2 -- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies saw its tablet computer shipments leap by almost a third in the third quarter from the same period last year despite being shackled by an escalating series of trade bans by the US government, according to the latest report from IDC.

Huawei sold 4.9 million tablets in the three months ended Sept. 30, the fourth biggest global player with 10.2 percent market share, the US market intelligence firm said.

The increased use of remote offices during the Covid-19 pandemic has boosted demand for the portable device. Global shipments as a whole rose 24.9 percent in the third quarter from the year before to 47.6 million units, the report said.

US tech giant Apple remained in top spot, selling 13.9 million tablets, a year-on-year increase of 17.4 percent, although its market share lost ground slightly falling to 29.2 percent from 31.1 percent.

China’s Lenovo jumped to fifth place with 8.6 percent market share, a leap of 62.4 percent from the same period last year. The Beijing-based firm benefited from its well-placed budget range, IDC said.

Samsung also did well with shipments soaring by 89.2 percent to 9.4 million units, lifting the South Korean company to second place with 19.8 percent market share.

US e-commerce brand Amazon was the only one of the top five names to slide. It sold 5.4 million units, 1.2 percent less than the same time last year and its market share slipped to 11.4 percent from 14.4 percent.
Whether Huawei can keep up the performance remains uncertain, the report said. The sanctions mean that Google’s key apps, including the Play Store, Google Maps, Facebook and Youtube, can no longer be accessed on the latest Huawei phones.

The bans have also inflicted great damage on the Shenzhen-based firm’s global supply chain and securing the right components for its tablet lineup will continue to be an issue, IDC added.

 

The HUAWEI MateStation B515 with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of HDD storage is priced at RMB 3,599 yuan ($550) and is powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor, not including a display.

Huawei's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost


After appearing on its official website last month, Huawei on Tuesday officially unveiled the HUAWEI MateStation B515, a commercial desktop computer, which is now available for purchase on Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com.

According to the JD.com page, the HUAWEI MateStation B515 with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of HDD storage is priced at RMB 3,599 yuan ($550) and is powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor, not including a display.

The 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD storage version is priced at RMB 4,598 yuan, including the display, and is also powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor.

Huawei's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost


The 8GB RAM and 1 TB HDD storage version is priced at RMB 4,498 yuan, including the display.

After many rumors, the MateStation B515 finally appeared on Huawei's website late last month.

On Tuesday, Huawei officially unveiled the machine. It has a compact 8L form factor, saving two-thirds of the space of a traditional desktop computer.

It's powered by a new generation of 8-core 7nm AMD 4000G series processors with 8GB/16GB DDR4 memory options.

It comes with a Radeon Graphics integrated graphics card. It does not come standard with a discrete graphics card, but users can upgrade to a high-performance discrete graphics card.

The Huawei MateStation B515 comes with Windows 10 Home Edition.
 

The HUAWEI MateStation B515 with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of HDD storage is priced at RMB 3,599 yuan ($550) and is powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor, not including a display.

Huawei's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost


After appearing on its official website last month, Huawei on Tuesday officially unveiled the HUAWEI MateStation B515, a commercial desktop computer, which is now available for purchase on Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com.

According to the JD.com page, the HUAWEI MateStation B515 with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of HDD storage is priced at RMB 3,599 yuan ($550) and is powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor, not including a display.

The 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD storage version is priced at RMB 4,598 yuan, including the display, and is also powered by an AMD R5-4600G processor.

Huawei's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost's desktop computer, the MateStation B515, is now available at JD.com-cnTechPost


The 8GB RAM and 1 TB HDD storage version is priced at RMB 4,498 yuan, including the display.

After many rumors, the MateStation B515 finally appeared on Huawei's website late last month.

On Tuesday, Huawei officially unveiled the machine. It has a compact 8L form factor, saving two-thirds of the space of a traditional desktop computer.

It's powered by a new generation of 8-core 7nm AMD 4000G series processors with 8GB/16GB DDR4 memory options.

It comes with a Radeon Graphics integrated graphics card. It does not come standard with a discrete graphics card, but users can upgrade to a high-performance discrete graphics card.

The Huawei MateStation B515 comes with Windows 10 Home Edition.
It seems Huawei is only banned from buying things related to 5G.
 
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