A couple of days ago a known automobile blogger @WuPei interviewed Yu Chengdong, the CEO of Huawei BG and CEO of Smart Car solutions. In the interview, the official was asked about the company’s plans for the automobile market, so let’s take a look.

During the interview (Via ITHome), Wu Pei asked Yu Chengdong a number of questions, with one of the key ones being whether the official believed that Huawei’s success in the smartphone industry can be reflected within the automobile industry as well. In response to this, the Chinese tech giant’s executive stated that it is very likely since he believes that the three cornerstones to its success in the mobile industry are experience, quality, and brand.

The company already has experience within the automobile industry over its long years of partnership with carmakers. Apart from this, it will also ensure quality under its brand image. Yu Chengdong further added that Huawei’s aim is to be the first smartphone brand to be fully invested in the automobile market. The company has a notable goal since nobody remembers the one that comes second, as per the executive.

For those unaware, Huawei has been working on diversifying its business operations after its mobile unit saw a decline due to sanctions by the US government. One of the new key areas of focus was automobiles. The company has already patented a number of technology related to the next generation of self driving technology and other related systems. So, it is clear that the brand has major plans for the future within the automobile segment.

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Huawei Technologies’ Consumer Business Group’s chief executive, Richard Yu, will be heading the company’s efforts into cloud services and artificial intelligence, as the firm expands to new and emerging markets.

According to an SCMP report, Richard Yu will take over as head of the two business units of the Chinese tech giant from the current lead Huo Jinlong. The news arrives via an internal memo being seen by SCMP. Furthermore, it was also reported that the senior executive will take on his new roles officially as of 7th February 2021. Furthermore, Huo will be transferred to the company’s digital power service, which is a unit under the telecom equipment maker’ carrier business group that deals in telecommunications network operators.

As per Kitty Fok, managing director of IDC China, “AI and cloud computing are the key growth areas in China over the next few years.Putting more focus and investments in AI and cloud computing is an important strategy for Huawei to capture future opportunities.” Unfortunately, Huawei has declined to comment on the matter of its internal management reshuffling at the moment. The report also arrives as the company is currently expanding and pushing towards newer growth market.

For those unaware, US sanctions have drastically impacts the Huawei’s primary business unit, its smartphone division, and has caused it to now focus on other core areas. A while back, the company’s Founder and CEO even called for decentralization as well, while Huawei also focuses more on its cloud computing services and other ventures, including cloud gaming, AI, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. However, it remains to be seen what new hurdles awaits the company, especially now with the arrival of the new US president, Joe Biden.

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HarmonyOS, the self-developed operating system by Huawei has been in development for 3 years. Last year, the company officially announced its first version at the HUAWEI DEVELOPER CONFERENCE (HDC) 2019.  At the 2020 edition of this conference, the firm is expected to unveil its second version. Rumors said that the Chinese telecom giant will release a smartphone running it by the end of this year. But now, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group officially confirms that there will be no such smartphone from the company this year.

Yu Chengdong, commonly known as Richard Yu recently attended Yabuli Forum Qingdao Summit (via Sina). At this meeting, he was questioned regarding Huawei smartphone powered by HarmonyOS. 

To this, he replied that there are no plans to release such device this year. But that does not mean it will not release next year. In other words, the executive reiterated his HarmonyOS announcement speech from last year.

In that, he mentioned that Android is their choice of operating system on smartphones due to the ecosystem and partners. But they will continue to develop and release devices with HarmonyOS in order to be self-reliant in the long run.

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Vincent Yang, Senior Vice President at Huawei made a similar statement last year that they will maintain a single ecosystem with Android. But HarmonyOS will continue to exist as plan B in case of a worst-case scenario.

Also, since the CEO was interviewed in the hallway of the venue of the Summit, he did not respond properly to the chip problem. But he did say that they are still looking for a solution.

Currently, Huawei’s operating system can be only found on its smart TVs. But according to the roadmap shared by the company last year, HarmonyOS 2.0 will support PC, cars, and smart wearables. This version is expected to go official at HDC 2020, which is scheduled for September 10-12.

Though there will be no smartphone running HarmonyOS this year, we can still look forward to the rumored Mate Watch featuring it.

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In a recent press conference, the CEO of Huawei‘s customer Business, Yu Chengdong, stated that the cost of flexible displays on foldable smartphones are too expensive at the moment. This means that it is virtually impossible to make a profit.

Huawei had recently launched the Mate Xs, which is the successor to the first foldable smartphone from the company and features various improvements. Both the devices carried a hefty price tag and are generally considered premium grade high end devices that only enthusiasts would buy. With a price tag over 10,000 Yuan (over 1400 US Dollars), one could afford even afford high end desktops or laptops at this range.

During the press conference, Yu Chengdong was asked if the price of the foldable phones be about the same as an ordinary phone in the near future. To this, the senior executive responded saying, “I think we need more than a year, maybe a year and a half or two years.” He even mentioned that the cost of this kind of product is extremely high and that the company is losing money.

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According to Yu Chengdong, the cost of making foldable smartphones like the Mate Xs is so high that there is virtually no way to make a profit. However, the reason Huawei is still focusing on expanding the production is due to the fact that its demand is impressively larger than expected, despite the 16,999 Yuan price tag (roughly 2,400 US Dollars).

For those unaware, the Huawei Mate Xs is an upgrade over the original Mate X. It features the new Kirin 990 5G SoC with various improvements to performance and battery life. The new designs also enhance the durability of the device and makes it a better foldable handset overall with an improved hinge mechanism as well.

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(Via)

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It is not unusual for companies to announce their sales target for the year. Lots of companies do it but some don’t. It was reported that Huawei had set a sales target of 200 million units for 2018, however, CEO Yu Chengdong, has denied the statement.

A screenshot from a WeChat conversation shows the chairman’s response to the sales target. A rough translation of his response says that Huawei doesn’t pursue sales target, instead it maintains a healthy and sustainable growth.

At the beginning of the year, Mr. Chengdong had mentioned that 2017’s sales revenue from the consume business unit is expected to reach ¥236 billion (~$36 billion). That is a 30% increase over that of the previous year.

Huawei and its sub-brand Honor, shipped a combined 153 million units for 2017, a modest increase against 2016’s 139 million units. It kept its market share in China and reached a 10% global share, finishing in the top 3.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information however says that smartphone sales are declining. In 2017, it is said to have reduced by 9.7% (448 million). Many analysts believe it will continue to decline.

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While Mr. Chengdong may not be pursuing sales target, the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, wants the company to expand its markets. To achieve this, he suggests a focus on low-end phones for both brands (Huawei and Honor) which he believes will help them expand overseas.

(Source)

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Huawei CEO, Yu Chengdong announced at the 2017 China Internet Conference this morning that his company is developing an AI processor.

The new trend for tech companies now is smart electronics with built-in AI assistants. Silicon makers like Qualcomm and Mediatek recently announced smart chips that will power smart audio devices.

Qualcomm announced a number of new smart audio chips last month and Mediatek’s MT8516 voice chip unveiled in May powers the AliGenie smart speaker. Since Huawei is also a silicon chip manufacturer, the announcement doesn’t come as a surprise.

Mr. Chengdong also mentioned that the company is planning on creating a cloud services platform that will allow users store and recover their data in case of theft or damage of their device. Another project they are working on is HUAWEI PAY which already has support for more than 50 banks and bus transport systems.

If you are expecting a Huawei smart home device, you may want to look the other way as the company has no plans of making one. Their plan is to provide a platform that third party hardware makers can use. Right now, they have gathered over 27 thousand developers to work on creating the Huawei smart ecosystem.

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He also bragged about the efficiency of EMUI 5.1, equating its performance on 4GB RAM devices to that of 6GB RAM devices from other manufacturers.

(Source)

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Following the release of the Xiaomi Mi MIX last November, quite a number of manufacturers have started to embrace the new design. The LG G6 with its Full Vision display is an example and Samsung’s upcoming S8 and S8+ have significantly reduced bezels. Huawei has also announced its joining the race.

Speaking at an interview following the China launch of the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus, the CEO Yu Chengdong confirmed that the company is working on a phone with the screen occupying the entire front from top to bottom. Yes, no bezels at all. Now, why that sounds good to the ears, it will be no mean feat. So we probably should not expect this to be released soon as part of his statement mentioned a focus on user experience. So not until the design is perfected will this phone launch.

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Xiaomi on the other hand is already working on a second generation Mi MIX. The target is for a device with a scree-to-body ratio of 93%, 2% more than that of the original.

What do you think of bezel-less phones? Should that be the new focus for manufacturers?

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As expected, Huawei as also present at MWC 2015 held in Barcelona, Spain. The Chinese giant announced its first ever smartwatch at the event and it is one of the best smartwatches that we have seen till date.

Huawei CEO, Yu Chengdong was present at the event and in an interview, he said that the smartphone industry will reshuffle in the next three to five years. Only three major smartphone manufacturers will survive in the market by that time. Naturally, he considers Huawei to make it to the top three, however, the rest of companies, even some from the top will soon be forgotten.

Chengdong added that Huawei makes sure it stays ahead of the competitors by investing significantly in R&D. In fact, according to him, only few companies in the industry can match Huawei’s R&D team. Although Huawei is considered in the class of Xiaomi, OnePlus ones and Lenovo, he believes that the company is good enough to compete with giants such as Apple and other silicon valley tech companies.

He says that their true competitors are not these Chinese companies but giants from the western world. In fact, he says that most Chinese smartphone makers will soon perish giving way for Huawei to become the market leader.

IDC reports show that Huawei is indeed growing rapidly. Last year, the company generated sales of over $74 million, growing by more than 54% as compared to 2013. The market share of the company rose from 4.8% in 2013 to 5.7% last year.

Although the company failed to get to the $80 million sales target, Chengdong adds that it was due to the increased focus on high end devices. The company now aims to sell about 90 million to 100 million smartphones this year.

Given the timing of the launch, the Huawei watch will directly compete with Apple Watch. However, he says that his company’s watch is much better than Apple.

Huawei is yet to expand aggressively in developed markets like US, and there have been several allegations about national security threat by using Huawei’s equipments. However, he dismisses all these allegations by saying that one of the main reasons Hauwei decided to adopt Google’s Android platform for its phones and tablets is because of the vast variety of third party apps and features on the Android OS. Moreover, a third party OS will definitely help the company fight such allegations.

When talking about Xiaomi, he said that most people refer to the company’s marketing and sales when it comes to measuring success, and Xiaomi has managed to work on them. However, in the long run, technological innovation will drive the growth of the company and hence, the companies that look quite successful right now may not survive in the long run.

Huawei still cannot be regarded as one of the top smartphone makers, but it shows promise and we will have to wait and watch how the company evolves in the next few years as a consumer products manufacturer.

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It looks like Huawei will release a new version of the P7. Yu Chengdong said, among other things, in an interview this morning that they will continue to make “shocking” products and will release a version of the P7 phone with a sapphire screen.

We know that the Huawei P7 does not have a sapphire display screen. Could this be the legendary Huawei P7S?

Actually, it is pretty common to see manufacturers release sapphire-screened cell phones. After all, several versions of the iPhone 6 will also have sapphire screens. Also Vivo has implied that they will release one too.

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I.                   An Improvement for Huawei

      Restricted by its microchip strategy, for more than three years, Huawei has not had a flagship phone in the truest sense even though the company has been targeting the high-end market since Yu Chengdong’s arrival.

After HiSilicon started producing microchips faster, the Honor 6 finally had standard cell phone functions. Besides its processor, Huawei has improved a lot in the last two years.

The base band of Huawei’s processors has surpassed Qualcomm’s and Huawei is the third company in the industry to integrate 4G base bands into their processors.

       Regarding ISP, their processors use Altek-based technology, improving the quality of photos.

As for videos, video processors and codecs can be customized and tests show that they are pretty good.

Regarding the software, the UI is pretty fluid even though it’s not exactly aesthetically pleasing. Huawei has also improved several small personalized functions.

Like the Oneplus, there are not any clear flaws with the Honor 6. ON the contrary, it has some amazing features. Its most useful feature is the Wifi. Xiaomi’s attempts at taking advantage of public WiFi and shared passwords has been criticized for privacy and safety problems and, as a result, failed. Huawei, though, could easily do this with the help of internet providers. Huawei’s partnership with providers is one of their strengths.

The Huawei 6 is the result of progress made by Huawei in the last two years and is an excellent product.

II.                Late opportunity

The Honor 6 was released on June 24, 2014, the end of the second quarter of the year.

Other cell phones with similar specs (four A15 cores, the Snapdragon 800 and more powerful processors) were released as early as the third quarter of 2013, but most appeared in the fourth quarter.

New phones have been coming out non-stop since late 2013, i.e. ZTE U988S, Mi 3, Nubia Z5S, ELIFE E7, ZTE Grand SII, OPPO Find 7, vivo Xplay 3S, Xshot, OnePlus One, Smartisan T1…

Costing 1999 RMB, the Honor 6’s biggest rivals are the OnePlus One, the cheaper Mi 3, and ZTE Grand SII. Costing 1499 RMB (241.62 USD), the Mi 3 should have a fighting chance.

The ZTE Grand SII has a replaceable battery. Although the Honor 6 is a great step forward for Huawei, but it does not have much a great advantage over the Oneplus One, with its design, craftsmanship, texture, and the Mi 3 with its cheap price.

If the Honor 6 was released in the fourth quarter of 2013 or the first quarter of 2014, it might have a bigger chance. But as it’s being released in the second quarter, it might not have much of a chance as its competitors are starting to cut prices.

What’s even more unfortunate is that MT6595 will be shipped in the third quarter of the year. Its features are excellent and it does not use too much power. Its low price should also lower the prices of powerful devices that will use it to around 1000 RMB (161.08 USD). This won’t leave the Honor 6 with a lot of time to get ready.

The Honor 6 is a great product but unfortunately it has come out at the wrong time. If Huawei really wants to fight back, they would continue to push HiSilicon to make better processors and catch up with Samsung and Qualcomm. At the same time, they should create more processors that use A57 cores and use the most advanced technology.

Things might just turn around in 2015 if Xiaomi and Huawei release products that use a 64-bit A57-core processor in the first quarter.

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Huawei has been introducing Hass K3V2 mobile processor last year, but now we have heard that sad news that says the Huawei will say good bye to Hass K3V2 mobile processor. Since Huawei’s high-end flagship model price is diving speed is very fast.

The Vice President of Huawei Company, Yu Chengdong has pst in his microblogging site that revealed some information on Huawei’s next-generation mobile processor, he said, “We recently watched the new 28nm HPM process Hass’s latest high-end quad-core mobile chip, performance 50-80%, while the integrated power consumption is reduced by 50%.

So, Huawei will stop using Huawei Hass K3V2 mobile processor since November this year, but Huawei is starting to making the new processor for next Huawei products, so It’s time to say goodbye to Huawei Hass K3V2 mobile processor!

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CEO Huawei, Yu Chengdong said that Huawei is not just trying to jump into the realm of mobile Windows Phone only. He said that Huawei is planning to adopt the Windows Phone operating system for all.

Chengdong also added that Huawei has a long-term plan with Windows Phone. Ascend W1 phone is the beginning of the plan.

The Huawei Ascend W1 itself is rumored to be on sale in China for about 1599 yuan or around $ 257 USD. As a precaution, Huawei will test market reaction and enthusiasm to produce 500 thousand units for the first batch.

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