SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China's Huawei Technologies Co said on Friday it had made breakthroughs in areas ranging from operating systems to artificial intelligence, and that it took the company 10 years to do what it took the United States and Europe 30 years to achieve.
Richard Yu, president of Huawei's consumer business group, was speaking at the opening of the three-day developer conference in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan, where he said that the company's Harmony operating system is now available on more than 900 million devices.
“Harmony has made major breakthroughs. It can be said that we have achieved in 10 years what took our European and American counterparts more than 30 years to achieve, in terms of building the core technology of an independent operating system,” Yu said.
Yu added that Ascend's AI infrastructure — the most powerful from a Chinese company — is now the second most popular after Nvidia (NASDAQ:), which dominates the AI chip market.
He added that Europe and the United States have dominated operating systems and other software for a long time, although the era of the Internet of Things has given Huawei a chance to overtake them.
In the first quarter of 2024, Huawei's HarmonyOS, its in-house version of the operating system, overtook Apple's iOS (NASDAQ:) to become the second best-selling mobile operating system in China after Android with a 17% market share. Research firm Counterpoint said.
