The CEO of Huawei‘s Consumer Business BG, Yu Chengdong, has stated in an interesting fact about the company’s current situation in this time of crisis. The senior executive has stated that Huawei’s consumer business is expected to grow by over 20 percent in 2020, especially in China.
The statement was made in an interview with a Chinese news reporting agency. Yu Chengdong is confident about the growth of Huawei’s smartphone sales in the Chinese market, although the same cannot be said for the global market. The senior official believes that the numbers won’t be as high as 20 percent, due to the lack of GMS (Google Mobile Services).
For those unaware, after the US Commerce Department blacklisted Huawei back in 2019, the company was banned from trading or partnering with US based companies. This led to Huawei smartphones shipping without Google’s services. The move was a clear strategy by the US to pressure the company and by its extension, China.
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However, in response to this, Huawei made its very own mobile services ecosystem, which Yu Chengdong said “is now very good and selling well. The P40 series are all equipped with HMS and are already being shipped. Due to the epidemic, some stores can’t open, but the second half will be better.” However, its viability outside of China is still under scrutiny.
In another attempt to hamper Huawei’s operations, the US is trying to limit the company’s chip making process through TSMC. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the primary supplier of the company’s HiSilicon Kirin chipsets. So this could potentially deal a devastating blow to the Chinese tech giant.
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