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  • A.I. chip Ascend 910 – The New Huawei’s Product

    A.I. chip Ascend 910 – The New Huawei’s Product

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    A.I. chip Ascend 910 - The New Huawei's Product

     

    Despite the pressure from the U.S. government and a blacklist known as the Entity List, Huawei proofs ability to develop new technology. 

    Huawei declared the market availability of an artificial intelligence chip Friday named A.I. chip Ascend 910. By putting it against Qualcomm and Nvidia, it shows resistance to U.S. pressure. 

    This AI chip, named the Ascend 910, appeared in October last year. The usage of it is intended for data centers. Companies applying AI apps need tremendous volumes of data to raise smart algorithms. The whole process can last for weeks. Huawei declares that its chip can treat more data for a shorter time than its rivals and is able to end the whole process in a few minutes.

    “We have been making steady progress since we announced our AI strategy in October last year,” Eric Xu, one of Huawei’s chairmen, stated in a press release. “Everything is moving forward according to plan, from R&D (research and development) to product launch. We promised a full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio. And today we delivered.”

    Huawei is on a blacklist in the U.S. that limits American firms from doing business with this Chinese firm. But Huawei is connected with a lot of U.S. providers for key technology.

    A.I. chip Ascend 910 despite the pressure

    Taking the blacklist in view, Huawei has adjusted its works on homegrown technology. It recently released an operating system named HongmengOS, or on English HarmonyOS.

    Huawei already gives cloud services. By selling the hardware with software altogether, Huawei is expecting to stimulate more expansion to its company. It is currently suffering a slowdown in its core networking program and hopes the new project could neutralize that slack.

    China company will be represented with two AI chips in the market. The chip Ascend 910 and the other chip, already launched, called the Ascend 310l. Huawei is hoping that their products could play the main role against opponents such as Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia.

    At the beginning of this month, Huawei has launched its own and new operating system called the HongmengOS (HarmonyOS).

    The advantage of this operating system is that it can be used on smartphones, smart speakers and even sensors. It’s part of Huawei’s performance in the so-called Internet of Things, meaning devices connected to the internet.

    HarmonyOS will first be practiced on televisions, which is Huawei’s plan. Later, this OS will be utilized in other devices, such as wearables and car head units.

    At first, OS will originally launch in China but Huawei has the plan to expand it globally, said the CEO of Huawei’s tech consumer division, Richard Yu.

  • Huawei is Riding Again in the US market

    Huawei is Riding Again in the US market

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    After The White House Has Fired Shots, Commerce Department Seemingly Walks Back On It

    On May 15 after the US President has signed the executive order declaring a national emergency and giving to the US Commerce Department power to create a blacklist for foreign companies which are barred from procuring the US-made products and selling their products in the US.

    On May 20 the Commerce Department has issued a special 90-days authorization for Huawei.

    After the US has blacklisted Huawei and another 68 Chinese companies from purchasing the US made products and services stock markets around the world had their say. This latest “broadside” in the US-China trade war has sent shockwave around the globe which caused stocks of many involved companies to the tank.

    Alphabet, owner of software giant Google; Qualcomm, mobile chip maker; Micron Technology, NAND memory chip producer; Huawei, mobile phones and telecommunication equipment manufacturer; are some of the largest companies whose stock prices were impacted.

    In the unexpected move on May 20, the US Commerce Department has issued a special dispensation in the form of a general license which will allow Huawei to continue purchasing the US made goods and services.

    The special general license has a 90-day period and will be reviewed before August 19.

    The talk on the street was dominated by security concerns for customers who have already purchased Huawei phones. With Google confirming that it will not continue providing its services to Huawei, this concern seemed founded in facts.

    With these new developments, there are indications that Google has reversed their decision, or at least stayed it for the next 90 days. For Huawei’s customers, which are not only smartphone owners, it means that Huawei will be able to receive security updates and advisories from Google and distribute them to their customers until August 19.

    But that is just half of the story about Huawei and US 

    Huawei is striving to become the largest smartphone maker by the year 2020, and currently the largest telecommunication equipment maker in the world, which describe itself as the “unparalleled leader in 5G”.

    The US has already attempted to pressure its allies to stop using Chinese made telecommunication equipment in their infrastructures. In a statement a Huawei spokesperson said that imposed restrictions “will only serve to limit the US to inferior yet more expensive alternatives, leaving the US lagging behind in 5G deployment, and eventually harming the interests of US companies and consumers.”

    And these words are not without merit, as many American rural internets and phone operators rely on affordable Chinese made equipment to provide their services in their markets. Replacement of which could have a large economic impact and take several years according to the January filling to FCC by the Rural Wireless Association, an association of small communication and internet providers.

    “The Temporary General License grants operators time to make other arrangements and the Department space to determine the appropriate long term measures for Americans and foreign telecommunications providers that currently rely on Huawei equipment for critical services,” Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement.

    The US underestimating Huawei

    In one of the rare interviews for Chinese media on May 21, the Huawei founder, Ren Zhengfei has said that the US is underestimating his company.

    “Huawei’s 5G will absolutely not be affected. In terms of 5G technologies, others won’t be able to catch up with Huawei in two or three years. We have sacrificed ourselves and our families for our ideal, to stand on top of the world. To reach this ideal, sooner or later there will be a conflict with the US.”

    With the development of this situation reminiscent of the last year’s ban on ZTE equipment, Ren’s defiant words sound like a promise to not cave in the way their competitor did.

    While the unilateral decision of the US to ease the trade limits indicates awareness of how far-reaching consequences these bans can have, and desire to avoid the repeat of fiasco caused in Europe and South Asia last year.

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  • Huawei is banned from the US market

    Huawei is banned from the US market

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    Huawei is banned from the US market

    Huawei is banned. Last week the global markets dropped as trade pressures promptly increased between the U.S. and China.

    There is an expectation that the trade communications between the US and China will be settled positively. But putting on the blacklist Huawei by the US could indicate even extra market volatility advance.

    Wall Street shares have closed lower.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.33% to 25,679.76, the S&P 500 lost 0.68% to 2,840.09 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.46% to 7,702.38.

    Thanks to Huawei ban, the tech stocks dropping, beginning another week of losses.

    Broadcom and Qualcomm, which gets at least half their income from China, stocks dropped Monday. They are big Huawei’s suppliers.

    The same was with  Micron Technology and Xilinx.

    The U.S. choice to ban technology sales to Huawei caused the tech companies stock losses. Investors are disturbed the move against Huawei could decrease selling for companies, particularly chipmakers. Their income is extremely attached to China.

    Amazon, Nike, and Starbucks are hit too. Their stocks dropped yesterday.

    But T-Mobile and Sprint are between the few businesses to make profits. Those two companies are expecting the merger worth $26,5 billion.

    The investors moved to less-risky holdings.

    For example, utilities and energy are the sectors where you can see gains.

    It is so natural because the investors typically in circumstances like this, want to invest their money into the safer field.

    Chipmakers have sunk because of U.S. ban on technology sales to Huawei.

    The U.S. government states that Chinese suppliers, meaning Huawei and its rival, ZTE Corp., are an espionage peril.

    The reason behind is they are indebted to China’s ruling Communist Party.

    And Google bans Huawei phones, strengthening U.S. consumers’ dependence on Apple and Samsung.

    But what will happen with users?

    Google confirmed that it had canceled Huawei’s Android license, as Reuters reported. Huawei devices 002502, +2.20%  will only be able to use an open-source version of the Android platform.

    Access to Google services such as Gmail and YouTube and Google Play app store for third-party apps are restricting.

    Google did this to comply with a Trump administration policy.

    Trump’s administration policy requires federal-government approval for all purchases made by Huawei.
    Also for affiliated businesses of U.S.-made microchips, software, and other parts.

    Government officials became suspicious of Huawei. They worry that the Chinese government could use the phones to spy on US citizens.

    “For users of our services, Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices,” said a Google spokesperson.

    But the U.S.users could stay with fewer smartphone options.

    Apple and Samsung rule the smartphone market in the U.S. The two companies control approximately 80% of the mobile market, according to data from GlobalStats.

    Huawei tried to break the U.S. market. According to GlobalStats, the company’s market share in the US is less than 1%. And Huawei had retreated from the U.S. market in expectation of a confrontation with the US government.

    For example, Huawei doesn’t sell its leading Mate 20 models directly in the U.S., but the phones are accessible from third-party retailers.

    Market will recover

    Despite the new blast of market volatility,  Edward Yardeni marks a return to all-time highs this year.

    He believes U.S. multinational companies, which are endangered to the trade war, will eventually provide the market increase.

    “I think it moves higher partly because there’s a recognition that even companies that do business with China are going to find ways to deal with this escalating trade tension like moving some of their supply chains to other countries,” said the Yardeni Research president Friday for CNBC.

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