According to the data released by the European Patent Office, Huawei ranks first in the number of patent applications in Europe, ahead of Samsung, LG and other companies, showing that although Huawei has suffered some setbacks in the European market, it still attaches great importance to the European market and is ready to return the king.
According to the European Patent Office, Huawei ranked first with 3544 patent applications, while Samsung ranked second with 3439 patent applications, and the two were the only companies with more than 3,000 patent applications, far ahead of other companies. Because Samsung's business is quite complicated, if it is purely in terms of communication patents, it is estimated that Huawei should far surpass Samsung.
The third place in the number of patent applications is LG, Ericsson, Qualcomm is also among them, but the number of patent applications for these two is only 1884 and 1534 respectively, far less than Huawei. Today, in terms of 5G patents, Huawei is far ahead of the former giants in the communications industry such as Ericsson and Qualcomm.
The strange thing is that Nokia, which is also in Europe, did not enter the list this time, I don't know if it is nokia's poor performance in recent years, struggling between profit and loss, and continuing to lay off employees, so it has reduced investment in technology research and development.
Huawei can be far ahead in terms of patent applications, lies in its long-term insistence on huge investment in technology research and development, in 2021, although its revenue fell by more than 200 billion yuan, but it still invested more than 100 billion yuan in technology research and development, the amount of investment was as high as 142.7 billion yuan, and the data in 2021 showed that Huawei's technology research and development investment ranked third in the world, ahead of Samsung and Apple.
Huawei is now the benchmark of China's technology industry, it has long ranked first in technology research and development, and the 2021 domestic enterprise R&D investment ranking data shows that Huawei's R&D investment ranks first, and its technology R&D investment is 2.4 times that of the second place and 3.6 times that of the third place.
Due to Huawei's emphasis on technology research and development, Huawei continues to be in the leading position in the industry in terms of core technology, and the HiSilicon Kirin chip it develops is in the leading position in the world, shoulder to shoulder with Qualcomm; the ARM architecture server chip it developed has become the industry's first ARM architecture server chip to achieve large-scale commercial use, breaking Intel's monopoly position in the server chip market, and winning a considerable market share in the bidding of China Mobile and China Telecom.
It is under the efforts of Chinese companies such as Huawei, China in technology research and development quickly catch up with Europe and the United States, and now in the number of patent applications has been ranked first in the world for 11 consecutive years, the rapid increase in the number of patents is accelerating the competitive strength of Chinese manufacturing in various industries in the world, it is reported that China has ranked first in 13 industries in the world.
Earlier analysis of the world's economic analysis pointed out that the European Union has achieved a dominant position in the automotive field, the United States is in the ICT and biotechnology-based health field in the leading position, China in the information, communications, Internet and other industries have an advantage, after decades of efforts China has finally established its own dominant industry.
Nowadays, China is actively promoting the transformation of manufacturing industry, climbing to high-end manufacturing, and enhancing the strength of Chinese manufacturing in high-value-added industries, and with the efforts of Chinese technology companies led by Huawei, China's manufacturing has made great progress, and it can be expected that China's manufacturing will achieve a leading position in more industries in the future.