Focus, break through and precipitate.
Exploring the future is the biggest social responsibility of technology companies. Under the repeated epidemics and the continuous influence of geopolitics, uncertainty is bringing severe challenges to the development of human society, and how to find certainty in uncertainty tests the wisdom of the industry.
On April 26, the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Conference arrived as scheduled, Huawei Rotating Chairman Hu Houkun and Huawei Strategic Research Institute President Zhou Hong respectively made detailed speeches on Huawei's future business layout and forward-looking technical judgments, and through the keynote speeches of Hu Houkun and Zhou Hong, the reporter found that in the face of digitalization and its own future development, Huawei gave three key words, namely focus, breakthrough and precipitation.
On April 26, the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Conference arrived as scheduled, and Huawei Rotating Chairman Hu Houkun and Huawei Strategic Research Institute President Zhou Hong respectively gave solid speeches on Huawei's future business layout and forward-looking technical judgments.
Focus: The two main channels build long-term competitiveness
At present, accelerating digitalization and the development of the digital economy has become a national strategy for most countries to cope with the epidemic, increase social resilience, and promote economic recovery, at the same time, climate and environmental changes have become a huge challenge to the survival and development of human society, in the past three years, severe external environment and non-market factors have brought trouble to Huawei's operations, so focusing on digitalization and low-carbon is to point out the development direction for all product lines within Huawei.
"Huawei must firmly grasp the two major opportunities of digitalization of thousands of industries and the low-carbon development of human society." Hu Houkun believes that Huawei, as a technology company, these two major trends are neither unavoidable nor missed, and Huawei's innovation accumulation in the past three decades can make a difference.
Hu Houkun, rotating chairman of Huawei, pointed out that Huawei should firmly seize the two major opportunities of digitalization of thousands of industries and low-carbon development of human society.
For a long time, Huawei has been committed to extending its ICT technology capabilities to the digitization of all walks of life, supporting the digital transformation of supply chains in thousands of industries through continuous innovation, and alleviating the objective difficulties caused by the epidemic. In the past year, Huawei, together with operators and partners, has practiced digital transformation and upgrading in more than 20 industries, including ports, manufacturing, coal mines, steel, and chemicals, and has signed more than 3,000 commercial contracts for 5G industry applications.
In the mine, Huawei has used 5G to realize the remote control of underground shearers, excavators, and transport railcars, which reduces the exposure time of workers in the dangerous environment underground while improving the working environment, and greatly improves the safety production status of coal mines; in the chemical industry, which is facing challenges such as flammability, explosiveness, and high temperature, video collection and all-weather analysis of all elements of the factory area are carried out through 5G robot inspection and 5G mobile operation monitoring, which greatly improves the safety prediction efficiency.
As a key technology enabling thousands of industries, in terms of cloud services, HUAWEI CLOUD puts forward the development concept of everything is a service, and transforms Huawei's more than 30 years of technology accumulation in the ICT field into various cloud services, based on the cloud, with AI as the core, and through the cloud network edge-end collaboration, to build an open, three-dimensional perception, global collaboration, accurate judgment and continuous evolution of the powerful digital platform, precipitating industry knowledge, accelerating the innovation of the main business process, rapid iteration, and responding to new competition and changes.
In terms of green and low carbon, digital technology is the key enabler of green development. Huawei first focuses on the energy conservation and emission reduction and green development of the ICT industry itself, continuously improves the energy efficiency of ICT products through energy-saving technology innovation, creates a minimalist, green, and intelligent ICT infrastructure, and uses ICT as an enabling technology to help other industries transform and upgrade to achieve green development; at the same time, Huawei's digital energy innovation integrates digital technology, power electronics technology, energy storage technology, and thermal technology to achieve bit management watts and help customers save energy and reduce emissions.
Undoubtedly, digitalization, intelligence and low carbon enable the transformation and upgrading of the industry and economic development, which is not only reflected in the improvement of production efficiency and business value creation, but also highlights the greater social value. It is worth mentioning that huawei has set up fifteen legions for the digital transformation barriers of traditional industries, each team shortens the management chain vertically for a specific industry, so that product development can better respond to customer needs, horizontally and quickly integrate resources, identify key business scenarios, and integrate huawei and partner products and capabilities to form targeted solutions.
It can be seen that the clarification of Huawei's two main channels and the establishment of the legion not only ensure the continuity of Huawei's business, but also continue to deepen the industry, Huawei will also be more targeted in solving technical problems and exploring the frontiers of science and technology, and support long-term competitiveness.
Breakthrough: The Technology Vision of the Pasteur Model
The biggest obstacle to technological cognition is the solidification of overcoming existing knowledge. For a long time, we divided science into basic and applied research, however, Princeton University professor Donald J. Lee In his posthumous book "Pasteur Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation", E. Stokes proposed that basic research and applied research are not antagonistic, and can be intertwined to some extent, and even applied research can inspire basic research, which also provides a new idea for Huawei's technological innovation logic.
"Huawei's basic research carries out pasteur model innovation, which not only expands scientific understanding, but also creates application value." Zhou Hong pointed out that facing the future, information technology will grow at a rate of more than a hundred times in ten years, digitalization will promote the accelerated development of people and society, Huawei put forward 4 major scientific assumptions and business visions for the future, hoping to explore together with academia and industry to carry out future-oriented research.
Zhou Hong, president of Huawei's Strategic Research Institute, pointed out that Huawei's basic research carries out Pasteur model innovation, which not only expands scientific cognition, but also creates application value.
Specifically, Huawei's four major scientific assumptions include microscopy, perception, computation, and connectivity.
Among them, the microscopic refers to the exploration of cutting-edge physics theories that will allow us to better innovate onlooker devices, technologies and methods; thus realizing the commercial vision of inventing new substances, energies and methods, molecules, catalysts and devices.
Perception is to expand the ability to perceive the world and perceive itself, from approaching to surpassing human perception, from alternative perception to extended perception, from human perception to machine perception; so as to realize the business vision of promoting physical health and building a digital world.
Computing is to explore new computing models that adapt to the goals and environment, so as to develop efficient computing architectures and invent new computing components.
Connectivity is a business vision that breaks through Shannon's theorem and explores information technology in a world of prior knowledge and in the larger space-time, thereby realizing a business vision of building direct global communication capabilities, integrating the real and virtual worlds, and enabling machines to be ubiquitous.
Undoubtedly, innovation with clear scientific assumptions is meaningful enough. Behind the four scientific assumptions, Huawei divides the innovation logic into five parts, including innovation, vision innovation, basic science breakthrough, engineering technology innovation, and business innovation. The closer you are to front-end assumptions, visions, and innovations in basic science, the more patience is required.
Zhou Hong pointed out that if there is no hypothetical direction, there will be no blueprint, and only blindly groping for people to follow the clouds; if there is no vision, it may be conservative and self-contained innovation; if there is no innovation in basic science, it is impossible to jump to the boundary of cognition; if there is no breakthrough in engineering technology, it can only do some better and cheaper extension line innovation; and the ultimate goal of innovation is to improve user experience, create new business models and ecology, and create industrial and social value.
Precipitation: quality development for the future
The future begins with assumptions. Without correct assumptions, there is no right direction, no right ideas, theories and strategies. In fact, customers expect Huawei to continue to provide competitive leading products. However, new business requires continuous technological breakthroughs, more system innovation, and even the theoretical support of continuous progress, so Huawei also ensures continuous innovation ability through "technical intensity + talent concentration".
In 2021, even in the decline in revenue, Huawei continued to increase R&D investment, with R&D investment reaching 142.7 billion yuan in 2021, accounting for 22.4% of sales revenue, and in the past decade, Huawei's cumulative R&D investment has exceeded 845 billion yuan. Both R&D expenses and expense ratios are at the highest level in nearly a decade.
In terms of talent, Huawei summarized the most challenging issues in the ICT industry, attracting global talents and allowing world-class talents to overcome world-class problems. Huawei proposes to "let geniuses come in groups", let experts play a full role in key business areas, let them "rampage" in the field of science, and fight the difficulty of technology with the concentration of talents, in 2021, there will be about 107,000 people engaged in research and development, accounting for about 54.8% of the company's total number.
At present, Huawei's R&D investment ranks second among global enterprises. By the end of 2021, Huawei has more than 45,000 valid authorized patents worldwide (more than 110,000). More than 90% of patents are invention patents. Huawei ranked first in the number of patents granted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office in 2021, and ranked fifth in the number of patents granted by the USPTO in 2021.
Change is always unsettling. In the past three years, when the world is paying attention to whether Huawei will fall and whether it will be in a hurry, Huawei obviously understands the value of precipitation, innovation is the root of Huawei's survival and development in the past thirty years, in the face of the opportunities and challenges of the future intelligent world, Huawei has always adhered to research and innovation, and the precipitated and accumulated R&D capabilities, R&D teams, and R&D platforms have enabled Huawei to maintain product leadership and technical sensitivity, which is also the core of Huawei's long-term and sustainable competitiveness.
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