China’s massive 5G rollout accounted for 60 per cent of the global base station count at end-February with next-generation customers representing 56 per cent of the worldwide total, the head of a locally-based mobile research organisation claimed. Wu Hequan, chairman of FuTure Mobile Communication Forum, said China’s 5G base stations…
Posted : 2021-04-15 13:58
Updated : 2021-04-15 13:58
Huawei s Director of the Board William Xu speaks at the opening of Huawei Global Analysts Summit in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, April 12. Reuters
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co is taking time to set strategy for its cloud business as the Shenzhen-based company pushes ahead with a broader effort to turn itself from a hardware maker into a services provider in the face of harsh US sanctions.
Huawei formally disbanded its cloud and AI business group earlier this month ― just one year after its creation ― and separated cloud from the server and hardware storage operation. It eventually appointed rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun?as chairman of the cloud unit and Richard Yu Chengdong, former chief executive officer of Huawei s consumer business and another close confidante of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as the cloud unit s CEO.
Huawei plans push into smart-vehicle industry
AFP, SHANGHAI
Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co (華為) yesterday said it would weather wide-ranging US sanctions with a push into the intelligent vehicle sector and by ramping up the development of its own mobile phone ecosystem.
Huawei plans to invest US$1 billion to develop systems for electric vehicles, as well as vehicles that use artificial intelligence in cooperation with major Chinese automakers, rotating chairman Eric Xu (徐勇) said.
It also plans to push ahead in developing applications in cloud computing and in the software business for the advent of super-fast 5G networks, he said.