Huawei‘s founder Ren Zhengfei has been quoted to have hinted that the company is planning to move its R&D centre from the US to Canada. The company’s US R&D arm is known as Futurewei. At the start of the US sanctions, the US arm had tried to extricate itself from the parent company but that did little to help it gain the trust of the US government.
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The move will also see the Chinese tech giant manufacture some of its mobile network equipment outside China. The move is no doubt to free itself from the prying eyes of the US authorities. We recall cases of parcels being re-routed and packages getting opened while in transit from China to the US centre. The move may also be to get the Canadian government to release Huawei’s Chief financial officer and founder’s daughter Meng Wanzhou, who has been under house arrest in Canada awaiting a court decision whether she should be extradited to the US or not.
Huawei rise to fame is heavily hinged on the firm’s investment in R&D. The company invested $15.3 billion in R&D last year, making it one of the top 5 companies to invest in R&D alongside Alphabet and Samsung. Huawei’s director and dean of the Strategic Research Institute Xu Wenwei had earlier revealed that the firm currently has more than 80,000 R&D personnel worldwide, accounting for about 45% of the total workforce.
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