Huawei held its 2021 annual report launch on March 28. Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping and Huawei's vice chairman and CFO Meng Wanzhou attended the results conference, which was also the first public appearance of Meng Wanzhou after returning to China.
At the annual report press conference, Guo Ping, huawei's rotating chairman, said: Huawei is now facing difficulties that advanced technology cannot be obtained, and if we want to survive, we must increase strategic investment, and actively seek system breakthroughs when a single point of technology leadership encounters difficulties.
Guo Ping said that Huawei will continue to promote three reconstructions: theoretical breakthroughs, architectural reconstructions, and software remodeling. In terms of basic theory, it explores the theoretical essence of computing and communication, breaks through the bottleneck of industrial evolution; in terms of architecture design, it does not rely on single point optimization to promote the construction of the overall competitiveness of the system; software, rooted in software core capabilities, reconstruct the core basic software stack.
First of all, in terms of chips, Huawei's chip research and development has reached a bottleneck period, while impacting the high-end market, there is no more new chip support, and the current Kirin 9000 even if it is still active in the high-end market, but with Apple and ov companies on average every year will produce new chips than the speed ratio, has lagged behind a lot, and the current Kirin 9000 and Snapdragon 8gen1, Tianji 9000 and the upcoming A16 ratio, it is really not dominant. But Guo Ping said at the press conference that exchanging area for performance and stacking for performance makes the less advanced process continue to make Huawei competitive in future products.
In other words, Huawei will increase the chip area and stack in exchange for higher performance, so as to achieve low-process process to catch up with the competitiveness of high-performance chips.
According to Guo Ping, "The future chip layout, our main communication products, using a multi-core structure, support the reconstruction of the software architecture and the doubling of performance." It should be said that it is equivalent to injecting new vitality into the chip, and I think we can increase our new continuous supply capacity. ”
With the increase of chip area, power consumption and heat will also increase, but from the perspective of Huawei's solution to power consumption and heating problems in recent years, I believe they can also solve it.
In the era of rapid development of smartphones, camera technology has become one of the important factors in measuring whether a mobile phone is a flagship machine. However, in the development of mobile imaging, only Huawei has made the image one of the brand's iconic features.
Through continuous innovation, Huawei Imaging has built up the industrial technical specifications of future computational photography from the three dimensions of optical system, imaging technology, and image processing, and formed a unique mobile photography technology system, which has become a milestone in the development of the imaging industry.
The first is the multi-camera system, which can capture multiple frames of high-data raw images, including but not limited to depth and breadth (main camera + wide angle; main camera + telephoto; main camera + ToF; telephoto + telephoto RAW File). Through fusion + calculation between each camera, the effect of image capacity of 1+1>2 is achieved.
The second is a freeform lens. In an era when plastic was widely used in mobile phone lenses, Huawei was the first mobile phone manufacturer to introduce glass lenses into optical systems. Subsequently, Huawei launched the leading freeform lens technology, the first in the industry to achieve large-scale commercialization.
As we all know, photos taken with wide-angle lenses usually have a certain degree of distortion, and the larger the field of view, the greater the distortion and the greater the distortion, which seriously affects the final imaging effect.
Huawei is the first manufacturer in the industry to adopt a freeform anti-distortion ultra-wide-angle lens, which can achieve independent control of light in different field of view areas, such as light incidence angle, light intensity, light deflection and optical path difference, which are effectively controlled on freeform lenses to effectively suppress image distortion.
Finally, there is the periscope telephoto. Huawei began to think about how to make the mobile phone shoot farther, and at the same time, it must comprehensively solve the problem of shooting clearly and well.
At this time, the periscope gave Huawei inspiration. For example, the Huawei P30Pro's built-in periscope telephoto lens cleverly turns the trajectory of the light by 90° through the optical triangular prism, and the super zoom lens is placed horizontally in the fuselage to achieve 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, and 50x digital zoom.
In terms of the most important system, CCTV reporters recently visited Huawei's HarmonyOS Lab and deeply experienced what is called "portable intelligence". Officially, in July this year, The Hongmeng HarmonyOS system will be upgraded to 3.0. HarmonyOS 3.0 brings several functional upgrades that truly enable a more powerful "Internet of Everything".
In the laboratory, the reporter experienced that as long as he used Huawei mobile phones to "touch" and "lean on", he could directly manipulate the range hood, air conditioner, blender, mirror and so on equipped with Hongmeng HarmonyOS on the mobile phone. The most amazing thing is that when we are washing or putting on makeup, we can display the mobile phone screen directly on the mirror to achieve the drama while washing our faces. Isn't this particularly like the "futuristic technology" of the movie?
At the same time, in 3.0, HyperTerminal can support more device access, as long as it is huawei Hongmeng OS3.0 system equipment, then you can carry out mutual access between devices and devices, the interconnection of all things from complex to simple, gradually infiltrated into our lives, become a daily habit, similar scenarios can also achieve the Hongmeng system display access to the Hongmeng system's electronic scales, monitors, then you can display the corresponding display information, life and technology are truly linked together, to achieve "Iron Man" The average high-tech life in the family.
The most amazing thing is the distributed collaboration technology. With this function, mobile phones equipped with Hongmeng OS3.0 can call the computer's graphics card, which greatly increases the graphics memory and graphics processing capabilities of the mobile phone, which in turn can greatly optimize the mobile game experience.
This Hongmeng 3.0 is really breaking the boundaries, realizing the prototype of the Internet of Everything, greatly improving people's life experience, and the blueprint for future scientific and technological life is also full of yearning and expectation.
Huawei is preparing for big innovation this year, Meng Wanzhou said, "Huawei has now passed through the black barrier area of disaster." At the press conference, Meng Wanzhou also wore a butterfly accessory, I believe that soon, Huawei will also break the cocoon into a butterfly, re-embark on a journey, and impact the high-end mobile phone market.