Huawei recently commenced its 19th annual Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen. The summit, which is a hybrid event, brings together industry analysts, financial analysts, key opinion leaders, and media representatives worldwide to explore upcoming industry trends and Huawei’s development strategy.
During the event, Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, delivered a keynote on the company’s innovation approach and its mission to establish a greener intelligent world. Hu emphasized, “We will enhance our innovation strategy, empower industries to embrace digital transformation and intelligence, and contribute to building a sustainable, low-carbon ecosystem. These are crucial for our company’s future growth.”
Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, discussing at HAS 2022, summarized the following key initiatives:
Innovating Continuously and Advancing Industry:
- In the connectivity realm, Huawei is pushing the boundaries of the industry forward. The company unveiled its vision to enable ubiquitous 10 Gbps connections through 5.5G and F5.5G technologies, the next stages in wireless and fixed networks. These advancements will cater to various specialized network demands, enhancing home experiences and providing the low latency and high reliability essential for industrial applications.
- In computing, Huawei is redefining system architectures for individual nodes, core software, and data centers to significantly boost system performance and energy efficiency.
- Within cloud services, Huawei is constructing Meta Studio, a cloud-based end-to-end digital content pipeline set to streamline digital content production.
- Regarding devices, Huawei aims to deliver a user-centric intelligent experience across all aspects of life, creating a Seamless AI Life experience and accelerating the fusion of physical and digital realms.
Embracing Digital Transformation to Generate Value for Customers:
- Huawei is adapting its products and portfolios for diverse industrial contexts. Simultaneously, the company is undertaking pre-integration and pre-verification of products to simplify digital transformation for its customers and partners. With Huawei Cloud as the core, Huawei intends to offer “Everything as a Service,” converting infrastructure, technology, and expertise into cloud-based services and facilitating cloud migration for various industries.
- Huawei is also establishing specialized industry-focused teams to address specific challenges, bringing together experts tailored to each industry to devise targeted digital transformation solutions and respond promptly to customer requirements by integrating resources from partners efficiently.
Enhancing Power Efficiency with Digital Technologies for Sustainable Development:
- Huawei is transforming the photovoltaic sector by leveraging AI, cloud, and other capabilities to enhance renewable energy generation.
- The company is also developing system-level low-carbon solutions for green ICT infrastructure, focusing on wireless base stations and data centers.
Looking ahead, Huawei is actively bolstering its business resilience and ensuring continuous progress. Ken Hu affirmed, “To drive sustainable innovation and create value for customers and society, we must keep innovating tirelessly. We are eager to collaborate more closely with our customers and partners to construct a greener intelligent world.”
Aside from its innovation strategy, Huawei also shared its ambitious vision for the future and ongoing explorations to reach it. In his keynote address, Dr. Zhou Hong, President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Research, stated that current imaginations are possibly inadequate for the future. Bold hypotheses and visions are necessary to meet the future successfully, urging a fearless approach to break through theoretical and technological barriers. This is considered the only viable path forward.
Dr. Zhou outlined ten challenges that Huawei aims to tackle in the future.
Scientific Questions:
- How can machines comprehend the world, and can models be constructed to teach machines about the world?
- How can we deepen our understanding of the human body’s physiological mechanisms, including the functioning of the body’s eight systems, human intent, and intelligence?
Technological Challenges:
- Developing new sensing and control capabilities such as brain-computer interfaces, muscle-computer interfaces, 3D displays, virtual touch, smell, and taste
- Real-time, non-invasive monitoring of blood pressure, blood sugar, and heart conditions, alongside AI-supported breakthroughs in chemical and biopharmaceutical discoveries and vaccine development
- Creating application-centric, efficient, automated, and intelligent software to enhance value and user experience
- Breaking through and surpassing Shannon’s limit to facilitate efficient, high-performance connectivity on a local and global scale
- Developing adaptive and efficient computing models, non-Von Neumann architectures, innovative components, and explainable and debuggable AI
- Discovering new molecules, catalysts, and components using intelligent computing
- Innovating new processes to outperform CMOS technology in terms of cost, efficiency, and performance
- Implementing safe, efficient energy conversion and storage systems, and on-demand services
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