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Huawei founder urges Honor to compete with its former guardian
Yesterday, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei addressed Honor workers leaving Huawei and urged them to work onerous in order that the finances line can ultimately surpass its former guardian company. That will likely be a troublesome job contemplating that Huawei is at the moment the second largest smartphone producer in the world. During the speech, Ren stated that though Huawei might discover a means round the punishments, it might price tens of millions of Honor’s brokers and gross sales individuals their jobs. “We don’t have to drag innocent people into the water just because we suffer,” the govt acknowledged. He added that after the “divorce,” Huawei needs to be Honor’s largest competitor including that surpassing its former guardian needs to be Honor’s “slogan for motivation.” He additionally stated to Honor’s employees that “We are your competitors in the future.” Counterpoint Research analyst Flora Tang says that there’s hope for Honor if it may possibly resume manufacturing. Industry sources say that Huawei’s rivals in China are benefiting from U.S. actions in opposition to Huawei by ramping up manufacturing whereas Huawei is unable to construct new telephones. Of the 51.7 million handsets that Huawei inbuilt the third quarter (July by way of September), 26% or 13.four million of those telephones had the Honor model.
During the speech yesterday, Ren stated, “Wave after wave of severe U.S. sanctions against Huawei has led us to finally understand, certain American politicians want to kill us, not just correct us.” On January 20th, after President-Elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th U.S. president, U.S. coverage towards Chinese tech corporations might be relaxed. Already there have been experiences that common short-form video app TikTok not faces being outlawed in the U.S. It will likely be fascinating to see whether or not the new administration continues to ban Huawei units and networking gear in the states based mostly on the concern-never proven-that Huawei makes use of backdoors on its merchandise to accumulate information from U.S. shoppers and companies and shares it with authorities employees in Beijing.
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