The interior is comfortable, the driving of the urban 4×4 is smooth. When a cyclist cuts the road lined with lush vegetation, the vehicle brakes gently. Sitting in the driver’s seat, a Huawei employee can enjoy the massage provided by his seat: autonomous driving works perfectly, at least on this stretch of road near Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen, the ultra-modern metropolis in southern China. in Guangdong province.
With its dozens of sensors, multiple screens and driving software based on powerful artificial intelligence, the new Aito M9 is a showcase of what Huawei, the world’s number one in telecommunications, brings to its automotive partners. The Chinese company does not manufacture cars, but offers a wide range of electronic equipment and services, and presents Aito, a joint venture with the manufacturer Seres, in its extensive network of stores.
Chinese consumers are excited: three years after its launch, at the end of 2021, the range is regularly among the five best-selling new energy vehicle brands monthly in China. More than 400,000 vehicles have already been sold. A success among others for Huawei, which has also regained third place in smartphone sales in China and could end the year 2024 at the top, according to projections by the Canadian analysis firm TechInsights.
Tuesday, September 10, the Chinese company launched the Huawei Mate A successful return for the company, whose smartphone sales had fallen after its inclusion in the American blacklist in 2019, which prevented it from offering Google services and, a year later Next, have your chips manufactured by TSMC, the Taiwanese leader in semiconductor production. The group saw its turnover fall by 30% in 2021, its profits plummet by 70% and decided to sell its second smartphone brand, Honor, due to lack of sufficient chips.
Applied experience for each sector
Since then, the Chinese electronics standard-bearer has carried out a historic reorganization along two axes. Commercial diversification, first. Although telecommunications networks still represent half of its turnover, the company is developing its offer in connected objects, automobiles, industrial software and services (to connect and automate factories) and renewable energy. Huawei applies its experience, electronics, to each sector: it does not produce solar panels, only inverters, which transform the direct current created by the panels into alternating current. In ports or mines, Huawei offers its cameras and sensors to existing machines to control them remotely.
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