After Huawei’s cell phone business struggled due to a shortage of chips, Huawei began to focus on peripheral products, such as computers, and on software to fill the hole.
Huawei’s PC
After Huawei released the commercial notebook MateBook B series in August this year, Huawei entered the commercial PC field.
The HUAWEI MateStation B515 is designed with a small chassis, equipped with a new generation of 8-core 7nm AMD Raptor processor, and equipped with Huawei’s smart keypad and mouse set, which can work with Huawei’s cell phones, tablets, laptops and other smart product sharing functions. The product has been on the Huawei website on November 20, December 8 for the official release.
In terms of computer chips, Intel and AMD have been licensed to supply Huawei, so Huawei can continue to produce laptops, desktops and other related products.
Since the HUAWEI MateStation B515 is mainly for enterprise customers, no price was announced at the site.
Huawei believes that desktops are the most productive category of PC products, and as a new member of Huawei’s consumer business family, they will play an important role in the future smart office scenario for all scenarios of smart living. The three key trends of the future smart office are: device integration, interaction integration, and ecological integration. In the future, Huawei will continue to launch commercial all-in-one PCs and commercial displays.
Huawei PC has become the second largest PC in China.
Data show that China’s commercial PC market has an annual demand for about 28.5 million units of space, of which desktops account for more than 70%. In Huawei flat panel and PC product line president Wang Yinfeng view, the vast market space is full of possibilities.
Wang Yinfeng said that desktops are an integral part of the PC field, but the market as a whole lacks innovation. At the same time, the PC is an important part of Huawei’s full-scene ecological experience, just like the initial entry into the notebook business, Huawei will continue to invest heavily in innovation, the pursuit of high-quality products to build desktop series of products.
It has been four years since Huawei entered the PC field in 2016. According to third-party research institutions, in the first half of 2020, Huawei’s market share in China’s notebook market will reach 16.9%, ranking second, entering the first echelon of the market.
In the face of the new commercial PC market, Huawei hopes to continue to replicate the success of its “boutique strategy” and make breakthroughs to bring business efficiency innovations to more government and corporate customers, and to make the smart PC trend cover more user segments,” said Chunxiao Xu, general manager of Huawei’s consumer business desktop area.
According to IDC’s white paper “Future Enterprise Efficiency,” with the digital transformation of enterprises, the future of work will revolve around three directions: “future work culture,” “future work space” and “future workforce.
On December 8, Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong also posted a message on his personal microblog, saying that Huawei has built many notebook products since entering the PC field. In order to bring innovation and value to the commercial PC field, today, Huawei launched the first commercial desktop HUAWEI MateStation B515.
The cell phone industry will change dramatically next year
On the other hand, Huawei’s original strong business cell phones, due to restrictions on the United States to limit its chip procurement and production, Huawei cell phone chips are in a serious shortage, the new Mate40 series launched this fall in October, has been in short supply in the market, and even news that Huawei Mate40 Pro+ will soon be discontinued, but Huawei’s consumer business, the first cell phone product line vice president Bruce Lee quickly dispelled this rumor, Bruce Lee said, “Do not believe the rumor, it is still early to discontinue.
However, there is no doubt that the chip replacement is very fast, Huawei cell phones can not use the most advanced chips in the market, which means that its cell phone products will lag behind the competitor’s products in the coming period of time, so Huawei cell phone market competitiveness, Huawei cell phone business will suffer losses.
Not long ago, Qualcomm released a new generation of 5G processor Snapdragon 888, which will use the processor cell phone companies, including domestic mainstream cell phone companies such as Xiaomi, OPPO, but Huawei and has been independent of the glory is not listed.
“The cell phone industry will change dramatically next year.” On December 8, the person in charge of a well-known domestic cell phone company told the Securities Times-E Company reporter. So far, Huawei is still the global cell phone industry first-tier companies, but in the third quarter of this year, due to chip shortages, Huawei smartphone shipments 50.9 million, down 7% from the ring, second only to Samsung.
Hong Meng OS 2.0 mobile version is coming!
Previously, on September 15, the United States issued on May 15, Huawei chip control escalation order officially came into effect, the Securities Times – e company reporter had obtained from Huawei industry chain news shows that Huawei currently has no plan B, the follow-up Huawei may be from high-end cell phone “downgraded” to the car, OLED screen driver, etc., with software, cell phone peripheral products to fill the hole.
On December 7, Huawei officially announced that it will hold a HarmonyOS 2.0 mobile developer beta event in Beijing on December 16.
According to public information, the event will be held on December 16 at the Park Hyatt Beijing, and registration will be open from December 4 to December 15. Attending partners and developers will be able to get a first-hand look at the highlight features of the HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta, learn about the latest innovations in HamonyOS 2.0 in all scenarios, and meet face-to-face with Huawei HarmonyOS technical experts.
At Huawei’s 2020 Developer Conference in September, Huawei Consumer Business CEO Chengdong Yu announced that HamonyOS 2.0 will be released in Beta for application developers, and will be released for large screens, watches and cars from September 10, and for cell phones in December. Next year, Huawei smartphones will be fully upgraded with Hong Meng OS 2.0.
Previously, Wang Chengluo, president of Huawei’s Consumer Business Software Department, said that users who upgrade EMUI 11 will also be given priority to upgrade Hong Meng OS.
Wang Chenglu revealed that over the past five years, Huawei’s software team together, basically the most core part of the Android system, have been almost replaced.
“This is to be honest, we have changed it from the underlying drivers to the abstraction layer of the hardware, to the programming framework on top of Huawei and so on. We’ve changed everything we can.”
The EROFS read-only file system released last year, including GPU Turbo, has been fully recognized by everyone, according to Wang Chengluo. Almost all of Android’s graphics stack has been changed. So, with these capabilities, upgrading Android’s EMUI with the Honmon OS system today is a straightforward task without so many difficulties.
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