In the past two days, Huawei has made new moves in the field of smart cars.
On July 7, Huawei officially announced that Huawei had reached a patent licensing agreement with Volkswagen Group suppliers. The agreement includes a license to Huawei's 4G standard essential patents, covering Volkswagen vehicles equipped with wireless connectivity.
Song Liuping, Huawei’s chief legal officer, said: “As an innovative company, Huawei has a leading wireless technology patent portfolio and has created innovations for the automotive field. Great value. We are pleased to see major players in the automotive field recognizing the value of our patents. We believe that through this license, consumers around the world will benefit from our advanced technology."
Huawei estimates that based on all patent licensing agreements currently signed in the automotive field, more than 30 million vehicles will be licensed by its patents. It is worth mentioning that this agreement is Huawei’s largest licensing agreement in the automotive field to date.
Huawei’s patent licensing agreement with Volkswagen Group suppliers is a blockbuster. This shows that Huawei has once again been recognized by global mainstream brands in the automotive field. Huawei’s “Automotive Friends Circle” Expand again.
Of course, while netizens are excited about Huawei's cooperation with Volkswagen, they are still worried about the incident a few days ago when SAIC Chairman Chen Hong "rejected Huawei's autonomous driving." At that time, Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC, generally meant that he would not consider using Huawei's complete set of smart car solutions because he did not want Huawei to become the "soul" while SAIC was left with only the "body" and worried that it would lose its "soul" for no reason in the future.
As a result, what SAIC did not expect was that the public was already impatient for the "soul" that SAIC did not like. Volkswagen has joined forces with Huawei, which shows that Huawei's technology has been recognized by foreign manufacturers. In the past, domestic manufacturers used to believe that imported technology was a good thing. Next, Huawei may reverse this perception.
In the field of smart cars, although Huawei has repeatedly stated that it will never build cars, it has used its strong technological strength to empower cars with intelligence. This time it has joined forces with Volkswagen , which further shows that Huawei has an increasing voice in the field of smart cars.
In the past two years, Huawei has increased its investment in ICT technology. So far, Huawei has dozens of core technologies and spare parts. For example, lidar, all-in-one electric drive system, autonomous driving technology, HiCar, etc. In the automotive field, Huawei has 137 autonomous driving-related patents, 60 radar-related patents, 96 electric vehicle-related patents, and charging-related patents. 30 pieces.
It is not difficult to see that as the automobile market extends towards the "autonomous driving" field, Huawei's strength has become apparent. In the future, many software and hardware used in automobile intelligence may be We cannot do without Huawei.
The cooperation between Huawei and Volkswagen also indicates that Chinese technology has entered the world stage, whether in the field of 5G or smart cars, China They all have the strength to achieve "overtaking on corners".