In the face of the global health crisis, Huawei devised five strategies to survive and looks forward to an Intelligent World in 2030 when it's over.
First of all, Huawei is optimizing its portfolio to boost business resilience, Rotating Chairman Eric Xu disclosed during this week's 18th Global Analyst Summit.
As part of this initiative, Huawei will strengthen its software capabilities and invest more in businesses less reliant on advanced process techniques, as well as in components for intelligent vehicles.
The company is also maximizing 5G value and defining 5.5G with industry peers to drive the evolution of mobile communications.
In addition, Huawei is providing a seamless, user-centric, and intelligent experience across all user scenarios.
Futhermore, it is innovating to reduce energy consumption for a low-carbon world and addressing supply continuity challenges.
"Rebuilding trust and restoring collaboration across the global semiconductor supply chain is crucial to bringing the industry back on track," Xu stressed.
"Moving forward, we will continue to find ourselves in a complex and volatile global environment," he warned.
"Resurgence of COVID-19 and geopolitical uncertainty will present ongoing challenges for every organization, business, and country," he elaborated.
"We believe deeply in the power of digital technology to provide fresh solutions to the problems we all face. So, we will keep innovating and driving digital transformation forward with our customers and partners to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world."
For his part, William Xu, Director of the Board and President of Huawei's Institute of Strategic Research, discussed challenges that will affect social well-being over the next decade, including ageing populations and increasingly high energy consumption.
Huawei's outlook on the intelligent world of 2030, including nine technological challenges and proposed directions for research efforts, he disclosed.
Defining 5.5G to support hundreds of billions of different kinds of connections is part of the challenge, as well as developing nanoscale optics for an exponential increase in fiber capacity.
Optimizing network protocols to connect all things, providing advanced computing power strong enough to support the intelligent world and extracting knowledge from massive amounts of data to drive breakthroughs in industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) are also part of the challenge.
Furthermore, the company has to go beyond von Neumann architecture for 100x denser storage systems, combining computing and sensing for a hyper-reality, multi-modal experience, enabling people to more proactively manage their health through continuous self-monitoring of personal vital signs.
And they have to build an intelligent Internet of Energy for the generation, storage, and consumption of greener electricity
"In the decade to come, we can expect to see many great improvements in society," William Xu predicted.
"To promote these efforts, we hope to join forces with different industries, academia, research institutes, and application developers to address the universal challenges facing humanity. We all have a role to play as we explore how to make connections stronger, computing faster, and energy greener. Together, let's march ahead towards an Intelligent World in 2030."