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How big is Huawei Group?
Top 500 in the world, with revenue greater than the sum of BAT, global employees170,000, communication business first, and mobile phone business third. ..................................................................................................................................
Smartphones are just the tip of the iceberg. Huawei involves many industrial chains in the field of communication, and its product line has covered the whole industrial chain of ICT (information and communication technology, meaning information, communication and technology).
Therefore, when the whole world is shouting "autonomous driving" and intelligent networking, how can Huawei be willing to watch this automobile revolution initiated by Google, Apple and Tesla?
be long premeditated
A long time ago, Huawei extended its reach to the automobile industry.
This can be traced back to 2009. At that time, Huawei had started the development of on-board modules, and increased R&D investment from 20 1 1.
In 20 13, Huawei announced the launch of the in-vehicle module ME909T, entered the car networking, and established the "car networking business department", promising to invest hundreds of millions of yuan in car networking related research and development every year in the future.
ME909T
From 20 14, Huawei and Dongfeng Motor jointly developed the car networking, and then established cooperative relations with Guangzhou Automobile, SAIC, FAW and BYD, and cooperated in many fields such as car networking, smart cars and international business development.
2065438+June 2005, Huawei's design director posted three car renderings with the logo of "Honor" on Weibo, and posted Aite Audi and Huawei Honor at the same time, which caused the first speculation that Huawei would build a car.
In 20 16, Huawei, Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ericsson, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm jointly announced the establishment of the "5G Automobile Alliance", aiming at integrating the resources among the giants, speeding up the research and development of driverless cars and deploying the interconnected equipment needed in the research and development process.
2018110/0 In October, Huawei and Shanghai GM-Wuling signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement, proposing to help partners realize the transformation of intelligent networking based on their own technological advantages in the fields of industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and 5G.
Since the beginning of this year, Huawei's actions have been frequent, giving the outside world more imagination.
2065438+In February 2009, Huawei released a series of solutions of "Autopilot Mobile Network".
2065438+April 2009, Sharing-VAN, Dongfeng's first driverless car supported by Huawei, was officially unveiled in Xiangyang, Hubei.
Shared truck
Tossing and turning, I want to talk. It was not until the Shanghai Auto Show in April that Huawei participated as an exhibitor for the first time and fully disclosed its plans for the first time.
Do you make cars?
Although in June 5438+this year 10, Ren made it clear that "cars will never be built across borders", the outside world is still dubious about this.
At the 20 19 Shanghai Auto Show, I faced several questions from the media: "Do you really want to build a car?" Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, joked helplessly: "Do you want to write a bloody book?"
Xu Zhijun emphasized two points at the auto show. One is that "Huawei can't build cars", and the other is that Huawei will "focus on ICT technology and help car companies build good cars". In its view, the future trend is the integration of automobile industry and ICT industry.
Judging from its declared strategy, Huawei has positioned itself as Tier 1 (first-class supplier), that is, the supplier of auto parts for automobile factories.
Although the possibility of Huawei making cars in the future is not ruled out, from the current point of view, Huawei's "resolutely not making cars" has at least two advantages: First, it avoids direct competition with OEMs and helps Huawei's supporting products occupy a larger market; Second, the growth potential of Huawei's supporting products (or solutions) may even be greater than that of direct automobile manufacturing.
Under the wave of electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing, the rapidly changing automobile industry is positioning ICT technology as a new leading technology, which is Huawei's housekeeping skill and will bring it considerable growth space.
As we all know, Huawei is a technology-driven high-tech enterprise, which will provide a foundation for Huawei to cut into the automobile industry chain.
For example, in the fields of chips, OS, voice, maps, cloud computing, AI, big data, 5G, V2X, etc., Huawei has leading advantages in chips, cloud computing, AI, 5G, V2X, etc.
In the field of autonomous driving, Huawei's layout mainly focuses on chips, computing platforms and solutions, focusing on computing and data capabilities. Chips are the basis of its intelligent strategy.
Globally, the auto-driving computing chip market is firmly controlled by Mobileye and NVIDIA, and both companies are in a monopoly position in their respective market segments. Mobileye mainly monopolizes the L2 autonomous driving market. In this regard, no chip manufacturer in the world can match it for the time being. NVIDIA controls the market of autonomous driving chips of L4 and above, and is in a monopoly position, even Tesla will be bullied by it.
In this context, Huawei's self-developed AI chips Shengteng 3 10 and Shengteng 9 10 were born, once again breaking the US monopoly and leading the industry.
In addition, the MDC600 data center launched by Huawei is a computing platform that can support L4 autopilot capability. At present, MDC600 computing platform has been directly mounted on the prototype of Audi Q7.
It is worth mentioning that according to the ranking of EU industrial R&D investment in 20 18 published by the European Commission, Huawei spent113.34 million euros on scientific research in 20 1334, accounting for 14.7% of the total turnover, which was much higher than that of Apple.
It can be said that Huawei has a unique advantage in entering the automobile industry, especially in the context of the "new four modernizations".
Huawei's circle of friends in the automotive industry is also spectacular. In 20 14, Huawei successively reached strategic cooperation with BMW, Dongfeng and Changan Automobile. , promoting the development of car networking; On 20 16, Huawei received orders for communication modules from Audi and Mercedes-Benz. In 20 18, Huawei also cooperated with PSA to build the "world's largest" front-loading networking project.
What will Huawei change?
Huawei's entry into the automotive industry refers to the trillion-dollar autonomous driving market in the future. According to the prediction of American consulting firm IHS, in 2035, the global sales of smart cars will exceed100000. McKinsey believes that by 2025, the market size of smart cars will reach 1.9 trillion US dollars.
In the face of this huge opportunity, Huawei is one step ahead of its competitors: its technology accumulation in the field of 5G and cloud computing is likely to lay the underlying architecture and industry standards of intelligent networked vehicles.
5G, 1 G is more than 4G.
You know, it will not only change the communication industry, but also bring a qualitative breakthrough to the automobile industry. In Essence Securities' report, the breakthrough of 5G compared with 4G in technical performance index is summarized as "three improvements of 100 times", which are delay shortening 100 times, speed improvement 100 times and connection number improvement 100 times respectively.
For the simplest example, 5G shortens the network delay from about 200ms in the 4G era to about 2 ms, and even cars with speed 100 km can complete the update of high-precision maps within the displacement range of 5cm.
In the field of 5G, according to the global ranking of 5G core essential patents issued by the European Telecommunications Standardization Association, Huawei ranked first with 1970 patents, 33 percentage points more than Nokia, which ranked second; In addition, a 5G patent report released by the German patent data company IPlytics shows that Huawei ranks first in the world among the companies that have made the greatest technical contribution to the 5G standard.
In fact, Huawei is the only communication provider in the world that can provide 5G equipment. This is also destined that when a new round of technological changes comes, Huawei will definitely be the "number one player" in the automotive field.
"The most disruptive industry in the future is the automobile industry. Self-driving electric vehicles may completely subvert the automobile industry of China 16 trillion output value, including surrounding industries. "
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