As the two most active technology companies in China, there will always be many people who compare Xiaomi and Huawei, and regard them as the most fierce competitors.Moreover, those who are attentive will also find that on August 29, 2023, the Huawei Mate 60 will go on sale in a way that surprises everyone (especially Raimondo). And it was after this point in time that the debate between Huawei and Xiaomi began to rage again on the Internet.
To put it simply, it is the return of Huawei's king, especially with the omnipotent domestic "Kirin" chip and 55G, so that all manufacturers once again feel the pressure from the "big brother", the speculation about Huawei on the network and the competition between other brands, has also set off a new round of waves, and among them, Xiaomi, which has grown into a domestic "first brother" in the past few years, is naturally on the cusp!
In fact, looking back at the history of Huawei's mobile phone business sector, whether it is its positioning or its benchmark brand in the marketHuawei's opponent has always been not Xiaomi, but the two Samsung and Apple, which have always occupied the top two positions.
In fact, before 2012, Huawei's mobile phones were not brilliant in the market, and the domestic market was in a state of chaos, and copycats were everywhere, at that timeSamsung and Apple account for nearly 50% of global sales, while Huawei only accounts for 4%.(No. 1: Samsung with a market share of 30.)3%, second place: Apple market share 187% third place: Huawei market share 40%）。
At that time, there was no domestic brand in the high-end machine market, and Huawei saw such a "gap" and challenged the high-end market. In 2014, the Huawei Mate 7 series was launched, officially marking the entry of Huawei mobile phones into the high-end market. The P series has also continued to innovate in terms of products, and the Mate series have become two of Huawei's most well-known and successful product lines. At the same time, the advent of the Honor series products has allowed Huawei to begin its steady rise, and it has truly stood on the "top of the world" side by side with Samsung and Apple. In 2019, the global shipment surpassed Apple by nearly 50 million units, becoming the second in the world!
I have to say that if it weren't for HiSilicon, today's Huawei mobile phones may have disappeared from everyone's field of vision!
HiSilicon was founded in 2004 to design chips for switches and other devices. In 2009,Launched its first mobile phone chip, K3V1, and released its iteration K3V2 three years later, and these two chips are Kirin's predecessors.
It is the advent of Kirin that gives Huawei mobile phones more autonomy and flexibility in technology research and development, and also ensures that Huawei's tuning of mobile phone performance can continue to reach a new level!
In 2019, the world's first Kirin 990 5G chip using 7nm process was released, becoming one of the first SoCs in the entire history of mobile phones to have built-in support for dual-mode 5G baseband.
Many people must still remember the letter from He Tingbo, President of HiSilicon.
Today, it is the choice of history, and all the spare tires we have built have turned "positive" overnight!
The road ahead is more difficult, and we will use courage, wisdom and perseverance to straighten our backs and move forward under extreme pressure! The monstrous waves showed the true character of the hero, and the hardships and hardships forged Noah's Ark.
Huawei did not disappoint everyone who was expecting it! In 2023, the Kirin 9000s was born as a domestic product after experiencing the US blockade and sanctions, and Huawei once again proved to the world that it did not give in, let alone be defeated!
As early as 2012, Huawei began to plan its own operating system "Harmony OS". In August 2019, Huawei officially released the HarmonyOS distributed operating system. It can be seen that at a very early age,With a far-sighted vision, Huawei has laid out chips and systems in areas that are easy to be "stuck".And in the face of sanctions and blockades, these "killer features" also take advantage of the trend.
As we all know, the most difficult thing in the application of mobile phone operating systems is to build an ecosystem, and Huawei has never been afraid of those bones that are difficult to gnaw. Today, Huawei's intelligent application terminals have reached 800 million, and HarmonyOS has greater confidence in ecological construction.
In 2024, Huawei's pure-blooded HarmonyOS will also be fully launched, and at that time, the world's third largest mobile phone terminal operating system will also be able to set off a new chapter of "Internet of Everything"!
Huawei's R&D investment accounts for more than 20% of Huawei's overall revenue, and even in 2022, it accounted for 251%, reaching 161.5 billion yuan, and the total R&D investment in the past ten years is as high as 977.3 billion yuan.
It is this high R&D investment that enables Huawei to achieve domestic substitution in many fields and promote continuous iterative updating of technology. For example, Huawei's self-developed Kunlun Glass and XMAGE imaging systems have significantly improved the performance and quality of mobile phones. It is this continuous technological innovation that enables Huawei to stand tall in the fierce market competition.
Summary:Huawei and Xiaomi are both representatives of outstanding domestic enterprises, the so-called "popular right and wrong", as a leader, it is inevitable that people will be compared in an all-round way, without dead ends, and the controversy will naturally continue. However, in the face of technological sanctions and blockades by beautiful countries and their allies, we really hope that domestic brands can come out of more "Huawei", have more of our own "trump cards", and let our technology no longer be controlled by others!