Huawei claims to have made great progress, from the operating system to AI

China’s Huawei Technologies HWT.UL said on Friday it had achieved breakthroughs in areas from operating systems to artificial intelligence and it took 10 years to achieve what the United States has achieved. It took countries and Europe 30 years to achieve this.

Richard Yu, president of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, spoke at the opening ceremony of a three-day conference for developers in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan, where he said the transport system The company’s Harmony operating system is now available on more than 900 million devices.

Harmony has made great progress. We can say that in 10 years we have achieved what took our European and American partners more than 30 years, in terms of building the core technology of an independent operating system,” Yu said. . launched in 2019, when US technology restrictions prevented Google from supporting the Android operating system it uses on smartphones.

The company’s Ascend AI infrastructure – the most powerful from a Chinese company – is now the second most popular after Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens a new tab, and dominates the market, Yu added. AI chip market. He added that it has long been dominated by Europe and the US, although the Internet of Things era has given Huawei the opportunity to overtake them.

Huawei’s smartphone business has seen a renaissance since the Mate 60 launched last year with an upgraded chip made in China. Sales of Harmony-equipped smartphones increased 68% in the first five months of the year, Yu said.

In the first quarter of 2024, Huawei’s HarmonyOS overtook Apple’s iOS to become the second largest selling mobile operating system in China after Android. with a market share of 17%, research firm Counterpoint said.