Shenzhen: Huawei top leadership during the 19th annual Global Analyst Summit, which kicked off in Shenzhen, outlined company’s commitment to innovation, a greener and intelligent world.
A Hybrid event, the summit gathers industry analysts, financial analysts, key opinion leaders, and media representatives from around the world to learn more about future industry trends and Huawei’s development strategy.
Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, delivered a keynote speech on Huawei’s approach to innovation and building a greener intelligent world.
“We will strengthen our approach to innovation, equip all industries to go digital and intelligent, and help build a low-carbon world,” said Hu. “These are key to our future growth as a company.”
“In terms of connectivity, Huawei continues to drive the industry forward. The company announced its vision to enable 10 Gbps connections everywhere with 5.5G and F5.5G, the next evolutions in wireless and fixed networks. Together, these will support a broader range of niche network requirements, including a more immersive experience in homes as well as the low latency and high reliability needed for industrial control scenarios.
“In terms of computing, Huawei is redefining system architectures for individual nodes, foundational software, and data centers to significantly increase system performance and energy efficiency.
In cloud services, he said, Huawei is building MetaStudio, a cloud-based, end-to-end digital content pipeline that will greatly expedite digital content production.
“In terms of devices, Huawei aims to provide consumers with a user-centric intelligent experience in all aspects of their lives – what the company calls a Seamless AI Life experience – effectively accelerating the convergence of the physical and digital worlds,” he added.
Huawei is adapting its products and product portfolios to different industrial scenarios. At the same time, it will start pre-integrating and pre-verifying products, doing all the complex work beforehand to make digital transformation easier for its customers and partners. With Huawei Cloud as the foundation, Huawei aims to provide “Everything as a Service”, turning infrastructure, technology, and expertise into cloud-based services, and making cloud migration easier for customers in different industries.
Huawei is also building integrated teams that focus on specific industries, bringing a specialized group of experts closer to customers’ business challenges and more tightly incorporating horizontal resources, i.e., products and capabilities from partners. The goal is to provide targeted digital transformation solutions for each industry and respond more rapidly to customer needs.
Huawei is redefining the PV sector with AI, cloud, and other capabilities to boost the generation of renewable energy.
Huawei is also developing system-level low-carbon solutions for green ICT infrastructure, focusing on wireless base stations and data centers.
Moving forward, Huawei is taking active steps to boost its business resilience and ensure steady development. “We have to keep the ball rolling through nonstop innovation, creating value for customers and society,” said Ken Hu. “We look forward to working more closely with our customers and partners to build a greener intelligent world.”
In addition to its innovation strategy, Huawei also shared its far-reaching vision for the future and some of the exploration it’s doing to get there.
“Everything we imagine today is very likely to be too conservative – too little – for tomorrow. We have to meet the future with bold hypotheses and a bold vision, and throw caution to the wind as we push to break through bottlenecks in theory and technology. This is the only way forward,” Dr. Zhou Hong, President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Research, said.
In his speech Dr. Zhou outlined following ten challenges that Huawei hopes to address moving forward.
New sensing and control capabilities, e.g., brain-computer interfaces, muscle-computer interfaces, 3D displays, virtual touch, virtual smell, and virtual taste.
Real-time, unobtrusive blood pressure, blood sugar, and heart monitoring, and strong AI-assisted discoveries in chemical pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and vaccines.
Application-centric, efficient, automated, and intelligent software for greater value and better experience
Reaching and circumventing Shannon’s limit to enable efficient, high-performance connectivity both regionally and globally.
Adaptive and efficient computing models, non-Von Neumann architectures, unconventional components, and explainable and debuggable AI.
Inventing new molecules, catalysts, and components with intelligent computing.
Developing new processes that surpass CMOS, cost less, and are more efficient.
Safe, efficient energy conversion and storage, as well as on-demand services.
The Huawei Global Analyst Summit was first held in 2004 and has continued annually for 19 years. This year’s event is being held from April 26 to 27, and it includes a broad range of breakout sessions on different aspects of Huawei’s business.
