Earlier this month, Huawei unveiled the AntRobot RPA 2.0 (Robotic Process Automation) during its Technical Service Partner Conference. This system arrives as the company pushes towards ‘digital transformation.’

With the new launch, the Chinese tech giant is trying to achieve a more quick and efficient process in multiple areas like customer care and business operations through automation. At the moment, many companies still use manual or labor based repetitive operations to achieve certain tasks. This affects efficiency and the accuracy of the process operation as well. Similar to a human, the RPA logs into the business system and processes data and business flows.

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The AntRobot RPA 2.0 can even take away the burden of multiple repetitive operations that are currently being handled manually. It can achieve this and still function 7*24 hours without interruptions and offer great efficiency and accuracy as well. According to a senior official from Huawei, “AntRobot RPA was incubated by Huawei’s Global Technical Services Department (GTS). The original intention was to help front-line technical experts solve the problems of interruption and blockage in the delivery process and IT tools, so that experts can focus on how to better serve operators.”

He further added that “In addition to the telecommunications service field, AntRobot RPA products are also used in Huawei’s manufacturing, supply chain, finance, retail, IT, HR and other departments, effectively supporting Huawei’s digital transformation. RPA is the product of the natural growth of Huawei’s business and the result of its own digital transformation.” In other words, the company aims on bringing automation to handle certain issues in operations better while building a new partner ecosystem as well.

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Qualcomm, which is the world’s largest mobile chipset manufacturer, is in talks with China-based Huawei Technologies in order to settle the dispute about patent royalty, reports Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter.

The dispute is related to Huawei Technologies withholding a hefty amount of royalty payments to the US-based chipmaker. According to the people who are aware of the matter, both the companies are currently negotiating, which is likely to result in a settlement.

The sources further add that the settlement of this patent royalty dispute could be announced in the coming weeks. However, they are warning that there’s a possibility that the talks could fall apart and there’s no guarantee of an agreement.

Huawei Technologies was the second Qualcomm licensee to stop paying royalties after Apple ordered its contract manufacturers to stop paying money to the chipset maker. If Qualcomm manages to reach an agreement with the contract manufacturers, it could restore billions of dollars in royalty revenue.

Qualcomm, in addition to selling chips, also collects royalties for the use of its patents on several key technologies in cellular standards. This allows the company to collect a fee for almost every smartphone sold worldwide, regardless of what chip powers those phones.

However, the patent-licensing business model of Qualcomm has been under attack from companies like Apple and Huawei as well as regulatory bodies in several countries. The company was recently fined a record NT$23.4 billion ($774 million) by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission.

Qualcomm has also been fined $854 million in South Korea and $975 million in China. It is also facing lawsuits from Apple and the FTC in the United States. The key matter in the allegation is that Qualcomm uses its dominant position to charge unfair royalty rates.

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News about the settlement talks between Qualcomm and Huawei Technologies comes at a time when Qualcomm is trying to fend off a $117 billion acquisition proposal from Broadcom. However, the U.S. government committee, which vets foreign acquisitions of US-based companies, has ordered Qualcomm to postpone its annual meeting, where the company is set to vote to replace six directors with nominees put forward by Broadcom.

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Huawei has announced its result for the first half of this year, showing promising results. In a statement published today, the Chinese mobile giant disclosed that the company’s revenue within the period is estimated at about 245.5 billion yuan (about $37 billion) which is an estimated increase of 40% growth in revenue.

The statement did not disclose the results from the different divisions of the multidimensional Huawei Technologies and news about that is expected in coming days.

It is on record that Huawei achieved a total revenue of about 395 billion yuan last year, with the Consumer Business Group division comprising smartphones, smartwatches, laptops  and others making up about 129.1 billion yuan of the entire amount.

According to Yu Chengdong, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Huawei’s ultimate goal is to overtake Samsung and Apple as the largest smartphone maker globally. Samsung and Apple presently occupy the first two positions as the highest revenue generating smartphone companies in the World, Huawei comes in at third position.

Huawei is targeting an overall revenue of $75 billion for the entire year, and that figure has almost been halved by this H1 result. The company is hoping that with the release of it Honor 8 flagship and other devices expected to hit the market during the second half of the year, sales of its devices would drive a rise in revenue such that earning might even surpass the targeted amount.

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