Due to the revision of rules such as chips, Huawei's various businesses in 2021 have been greatly affected, and the scale of revenue has fallen by 28.6% year-on-year to only 636.9 billion yuan, suddenly returning to the level of 2017.
Because of the impact of chips, the consumer business that contributed more than half of Huawei's revenue in the past has directly dropped from more than 480 billion yuan in revenue in 2020 to more than 240 billion yuan in 2021, which is equivalent to direct waist cutting.
However, according to the latest reports of foreign media, after entering 2022, Huawei's situation is continuing to improve, and the road is getting wider and wider. Foreign media have such a view, mainly for the following reasons.
Although the revenue in 2021 is more than 260 billion yuan less than that of the previous year, Huawei's R& D investment in 2021 has increased a lot, and the R & D expenditure is as high as 142.7 billion yuan, accounting for 22.4% of sales revenue.
In addition, Huawei has also increased its investment in the semiconductor field, established a semiconductor investment platform Hubble Investment Company, and invested heavily in semiconductor fields such as materials, equipment, RF chips, optoelectronic chips, EDA software, and filters.
Huge R & D investment and vigorous support for the domestic semiconductor industry, so that Huawei's future path has become clearer, although there are many difficulties now, but as long as the long-term attack on the core technology, there will be a chance to achieve a breakthrough, the core technology in their own hands.
In October last year, Huawei held the first batch of five major legions to form an oath meeting, including the Coal Mine Corps, the Customs and Port Corps, the Smart Highway Corps, the Data Center Energy Corps, and the Smart Photovoltaic Corps, mainly for enterprise customers to overcome technical problems.
At the end of 2021, Ren Zhengfei issued another ten reserve corps, including interactive media (music), sports health, display core, campus network, data center network, data center base, station and module power supply, airport rail, power digital services, and government affairs.
From the perspective of the business of these ten reserve legions, two are related to the consumer business, one is related to hiSilicon chips, and the rest is basically related to the enterprise business, which means that Huawei's next focus will be on the enterprise business.
Not long ago, Huawei held the second batch of legion formation inaugural meetings at Shenzhen Bantian Base, and after the official establishment of the ten new legions, Huawei already has fifteen legions, and they are responsible for various subdivisions.
The significance of Huawei's establishment of these legions is very large, which can allow Huawei to have more flexible tactics and strategic deployment, and then obtain more chips, and achieve industry leadership in the segmentation field, so that there is no need to worry about the neck of a business card and affect the development of the entire enterprise.
This year, Huawei's performance on the new energy vehicle track is obvious to all, and after the listing of the Q&A M5 jointly launched with Celis, it has achieved very eye-catching results, and 3045 vehicles were sold in March this year, tripling from February year-on-year, and is expected to become the development momentum of Huawei in the follow-up.
In January and February this year, Huawei issued a total of 3 medium-term notes totaling 11 billion yuan, on March 7 issued another 3 billion yuan of 180-day unsecured ultra-short-term financing bonds, and on April 12, Huawei issued 3 billion yuan of ultra-short-term financing bonds.
That is to say, huawei has issued a total of 17 billion yuan of bonds in just over 3 months, and according to Huawei's instructions, the funds raised are mainly used to supplement the working capital of the company's headquarters and subsidiaries.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei has carried out a new round of adjustments, not only promoting Huawei HiSilicon to a first-level department, but also Ren Zhengfei has made it clear that 20% of the annual revenue will be used as research and development funds, which means that future research and development investment will be directly linked to revenue.
Therefore, as long as Huawei's revenue continues to grow, R&D investment will be more and more, and the more input and output, a virtuous circle will be formed. This is also the main reason why foreign media think that Huawei will get better and better, what do you think about it, welcome to comment, like, share.