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When it comes to Huawei's most mysterious and high-tech department, it must be the "Huawei 2012 Lab", and what is the background of Li Yingtao, who is a director of Huawei and the CEO of Huawei 2012 Lab?
According to Huawei's official website, Li Yingtao was born in 1969 and graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology as a doctor.
In 1997, Li Yingtao had already joined Huawei. In the past 25 years, he has successively served as the director of the Swedish Research Institute, the director of the Wireless Marketing Product Management Department, the director of the Product and Solution Pre-research Department, the director of the Overall Technical Office of Products and Solutions, the president of the Central R&D Department, the president of Huawei 2012 Laboratory, the president of Products and Solutions, the president of Network Products and Solutions, and the chief executive officer of Huawei 2012 Laboratory, while Li Yingtao is currently a member of the board of directors of Huawei Investment Holding Co., Ltd.
In fact, Li Yingtao was originally the president of Huawei's 2012 lab and later adjusted to chief executive officer. Currently, the president of Huawei's 2012 lab is He Tingbo, president of HiSilicon.
It is worth noting that Yan Lida, Wang Tao, Peng Zhongyang, and Yao Fuhai also entered Huawei in the same year as Li Yingtao, who have now become directors of Huawei and hold core positions at Huawei.
The Huawei 2012 Lab, which Li Yingtao is responsible for, is Huawei's general research organization, and its main research directions include next-generation communications, cloud computing, audio and video analysis, data mining, and machine learning. Mainly for the development direction of the next 5-10 years, its secondary departments include: Central Hardware Engineering Institute, Central Software Institute, Central Research Institute, and HiSilicon. Huawei's 2012 lab has 16 research institutes around the world, of which 8 are located in China and 8 are located abroad, bringing together top talents from around the world.
Huawei's 5G technology ranks first in the world, and the number of standard essential patents accounts for about 27% of the world, which is the credit of Huawei's 2012 laboratory. It is worth noting that according to the data on Huawei's official website, in the past five years, Huawei's R& D investment has generally been in a state of growth, and Huawei's R&D investment in 2021 is 125.91 billion yuan, surpassing Apple and ranking second. Among them, Huawei 2021 Lab has contributed an indispensable role.
(Editor-in-Charge: Linghua Kang)