On July 7, Huawei officially announced that it had reached a patent licensing agreement with suppliers of audi ag. The agreement includes the necessary patent license of Huawei's 4G standard, covering Volkswagen and having wireless connection function.
Song Liuping, chief legal officer of Huawei, said: "As an innovative enterprise, Huawei has a leading wireless technology patent portfolio, which has created great value for the automotive industry. We are glad to see that the mainstream manufacturers in the automobile field realize the value of our patents. We believe that through this license, global consumers will benefit from our advanced technology. "
Huawei expects that more than 30 million cars will be authorized according to all the patent licensing agreements signed in the automotive field. It is worth mentioning that this agreement is the largest license agreement reached by Huawei in the automotive field so far.
Huawei reached a patent licensing agreement with suppliers of Volkswagen Group, which is a blockbuster. This shows that Huawei has once again been recognized by global mainstream brands in the automotive field, and Huawei's "car circle of friends" has expanded again.
Of course, while Huawei is cooperating with the public, netizens are still very excited about the incident that Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC, "refused Huawei's automatic driving" a few days ago. At that time, Chen Hong, the chairman of SAIC, roughly meant that Huawei's complete smart car solution would not be considered, because Huawei was not wanted to become a "soul", while SAIC only had a "body", fearing that it would lose its "soul" for no reason in the future.
As a result, what SAIC did not expect was that the public could not wait for the "soul" that SAIC did not look up to. Volkswagen teamed up with Huawei, indicating that Huawei's technology has been recognized by foreign manufacturers. In the past, domestic manufacturers thought that introducing 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 a car, Huawei empowers car intelligence with its strong scientific and technological strength. This time, joining hands with Volkswagen further shows that Huawei's voice in the field of smart cars is getting higher and higher.
In the past two years, Huawei has increased its investment in ICT technology. So far, Huawei has dozens of core technologies and spare parts such as lidar, integrated electric drive system, autonomous driving technology and HiCar. Judging from the number of patents in the automotive field, Huawei has 137 patents related to autonomous driving, 60 patents related to radar, 96 patents related to electric vehicles and 30 patents related to charging.
It is not difficult to see that with the extension of the automobile market to the field of "autonomous driving", Huawei's strength has already appeared, and many software and hardware used in intelligent automobiles in the future may be inseparable from Huawei.
The cooperation between Huawei and Volkswagen also indicates that China technology has entered the world stage. Whether in the field of 5G or smart cars, China has the strength to achieve "overtaking in corners".