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    Home»World»Huawei dangles R22-billion carrot in front of developers

    Huawei dangles R22-billion carrot in front of developers

    World By Agency Staff18 September 2019
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    Huawei Technologies is offering up its most valuable 5G secrets and US$1.5-billion (R22-billion) to software developers, courting the global tech community at a time the US is heightening scrutiny of the Chinese giant.

    China’s largest technology company aims to ramp up investment in its developer programme over the next five years, deputy chairman Ken Hu told attendees at an annual conference. That effort is gaining urgency with Huawei in danger of losing access to American circuity and code, including the Google software it needs to run the world’s second largest mobile device business.

    Huawei is accelerating its outreach after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the sale of US technology, encouraging allies to cut ties with a Chinese company it accuses of aiding Beijing in espionage. In response, Huawei offered to sell a licence to its vaunted 5G wireless technology — needed to drive future modern economies — to create a viable competitor and prove its gear is free of security loopholes.

    There are a lot of concerns over Huawei’s 5G solutions. We believe those concerns are groundless

    “There are a lot of concerns over Huawei’s 5G solutions. We believe those concerns are groundless,” Hu told reporters in Shanghai. “By allowing others to acquire these technologies via commercial methods, it will help reduce the concerns.”

    China’s perceived lead in 5G is at the heart of President Donald Trump’s campaign to contain the country’s rise. Already, Huawei has inked more than 60 commercial contracts to build the wireless standard globally, Hu said. China itself is ready to finish the first phase of its 5G roll-out by the middle of next year, he added.

    Huawei executives turned out in force in the country’s financial capital Wednesday, roping in foreign executives — such as the director-general of interstellar research project Square Kilometre Array — to showcase the tech giant’s road map for dominating future technologies.

    Alternatives

    It’s developing alternatives to US technology to help safeguard the world’s largest networking business. Part of that involves ensuring a thriving community of partners. Huawei established a developer programme to encourage external parties to create apps for Huawei services, including its just-unveiled in-house smartphone platform, HarmonyOS.

    The company intends to build its base of partner-developers to five million eventually, Hu said. That army of firms and individuals could help craft apps optimised to run on Huawei’s Kunpeng and AI chip computing architecture, which will power everything from Internet servers to machine-learning solutions.

    “This work has already started and we’ve received very good feedback,” he told an audience of technology executives in Shanghai. “We have implemented this strategy and we’re looking forward to more partners joining us.”

    Huawei’s rapid advances have, however, raised hackles in Washington, for which the Chinese company symbolises a geopolitical rival’s growing technological might. Executives sought to tamp down those fears.

    Hu, one of three main people who run Huawei’s day-to-day operations, reiterated an offer first voiced by billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei to share 5G blueprints. While he was vague on how that would work, Hu said Huawei would be willing to open up its tech vaults for a fee, to help another company catch up on a technology that will drive applications from smart homes to self-driving cars.

    “Customers and the entire industry will benefit from more competition, which is something that Huawei is willing to see,” Hu said.  — Reported with assistance from Vlad Savov, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP

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