Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Tuesday extolled the US-sanctioned company’s resilience on multiple fronts – from artificial intelligence (AI) chip development to growing adoption of its own mobile operating system, HarmonyOS – in a morale-boosting New Year’s Eve message.
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Over the past six years, Huawei “experienced countless moments of darkness, uncertainty and defeat”, but has also seen “one miracle after another, making the impossible possible”, Meng, daughter of Huawei founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei, wrote in a message published by the Shenzhen-based firm.
Meng, 52, thanked Huawei’s customers, supply chain partners and employees for a groundbreaking year. In October, she assumed for the second time the position of rotating and acting chairwoman at Huawei for a six-month tenure that ends on March 31.
She pointed out that hybrid engineering teams achieved breakthroughs – in areas of heat dissipation, power supply, high-speed transmission and chip reliability – as Huawei operated a dozen laboratories, where it worked with partners to design semiconductors, including high-bandwidth memory chips, used for training AI models.
The past 12 months also represented a “crucial” year to foster adoption of HarmonyOS Next, which no longer supports Android-based apps.
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Huawei completed in just a year what took other firms 10 years in terms of developing an operating system, according to Meng.