Huawei company founder Ren Zhengfei announced on Sunday the Chinese tech giant must make cloud computing its priority. US sanctions have hampered its ability to expand its position as quickly as it would have liked.
Zhengfei said that Huawei should learn from the success of Amazon and Microsoft, the front runners in global cloud services, by focusing on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). The company should focus on securing major corporations and companies in major industries as its cloud clients, Zhengfei reported.
Meanwhile, cloud services saw a dramatic surge in demand last year as organisations shifted activities online to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. In China, cloud spending was boosted by the government’s “new infrastructure” initiative that seeks to accelerate expenditure on areas such as 5G networks and data centres.
On other hand, Huawei is the world’s second largest producer of mobile smartphone handsets and was among the first companies to release a viable 5G handset to the market. However, the US government has placed Huawei on its Banned Entities list, claiming that Huawei’s mobile network and smartphone technology pose a risk to its national security an allegation that Huawei vociferously denies.
Huawei Ranked No.1 in Patent Ranking 2020 by Global wireless Communication Network Technology according to a recently published report on past November. The tech giant has filed 8,607 patents, a feat which contributed greatly to China being on par with the US, with both countries each accounting for about 32% of the worldwide numbers for 2020.
Noteworthy, in the ten-month period from January to October 2020, the company filed 8,607 wireless patents, eclipsing US chipmaker Qualcomm’s 5,807 patents filed within the same period. Which is indicative of its giant strides in research and development, even with the extreme market conditions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with US export restrictions still in force.
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