Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home
(2021/09/16)
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Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei told an internal company meeting his mega-corp must focus early on 6G to avoid being restrained by patents – and it will seek international talent to achieve that.
“Our study of 6G is to take precautions and seize the patent position. We must not wait until 6G is really useful, as we are then constrained by a lack of patents,” said Ren, as translated from Chinese, at the Huawei Central Research Institute in August. Text of the largely Q&A session was released via [1]Chinese news outlets today.
That's not too surprising a position given China's national intellectual property administration [2]claimed a few months ago that the nation already leads the world in patents pertinent to sixth-generation mobile networks. And given that Finland, America, South Korea, Japan, and no doubt others are pursuing 6G, too, it's in Huawei's interest to stay ahead, if not get ahead of the pack.
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We also note that a formal standard for 6G is not expected to emerge until late in the 2020s, and so the race is still on.
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The Huawei boss peppered the conversation with metaphors: he used fluid mechanics concepts to compare R&D to nozzles; said some people climb mountains and most people grow the food for the climbers, as a way of saying that we all choose our own paths in science and engineering and long-term research; and likened specialists to MSG sprinkled on noodles.
Attracting these experts are an area of concern for Huawei.
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“The company is in a critical period of strategic survival and development and must have talent to compete,” said Ren, who also said he plans to offer salaries and compensate at US levels to attract talent from the country that wrapped the tech giant up in [7]profit-crushing sanctions .
Ren offered a new research campus in Qingpu, Shanghai, as a place "beautiful and suitable for foreigners," complete with cafes. “If there are 700 or 800 foreign scientists working here, they will not feel that they are in a foreign country,” said Ren, according to [8]another, longer transcript of the meeting.
He does get quite enthusiastic about it. "There are very beautiful cafes on the roadside of the lake, suitable for modern youth and attracting all talents," Ren reiterated, referring to a nearby body of water that was likened to Lake Geneva.
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One hopes these foreign boffins don't end up being [10]detained and used as [11]political leverage in China's confrontations with other nations.
[12]Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
[13]China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio
[14]New drinking game idea: Down a shot every time Huawei blames US sanctions for the current tech industry woes
[15]EE boffin: 5G will be the LAST WORD in mobe tech – literally
The chief exec said Huawei needed more theoretical breakthroughs, especially in the fields of semiconductors and material science, an area the telecoms equipment giant has invested heavily in with [16]declining success .
“Japan and the United States are basically leading the way,” said Ren, adding: “We must use the global platform to create our own success.”
Of those US sanctions giving Huawei so much trouble, Ren said they’ve cause product part quality to slip, but not to an unmanageable level.
“In the past two years, we have been sanctioned by the United States and no longer seek to use the best parts to make the best products. Under the scientific and reasonable method of system flow balance, we have also made high-quality products with reasonable parts,” said Ren.
Huawei reported an almost 30 percent year-on-year decline in Q2 2021 attributing the plunge to the impact of US sanctions on its smartphone business. ®
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“Our study of 6G is to take precautions and seize the patent position. We must not wait until 6G is really useful, as we are then constrained by a lack of patents,” said Ren, as translated from Chinese, at the Huawei Central Research Institute in August. Text of the largely Q&A session was released via [1]Chinese news outlets today.
That's not too surprising a position given China's national intellectual property administration [2]claimed a few months ago that the nation already leads the world in patents pertinent to sixth-generation mobile networks. And given that Finland, America, South Korea, Japan, and no doubt others are pursuing 6G, too, it's in Huawei's interest to stay ahead, if not get ahead of the pack.
[3]
We also note that a formal standard for 6G is not expected to emerge until late in the 2020s, and so the race is still on.
[4]
[5]
The Huawei boss peppered the conversation with metaphors: he used fluid mechanics concepts to compare R&D to nozzles; said some people climb mountains and most people grow the food for the climbers, as a way of saying that we all choose our own paths in science and engineering and long-term research; and likened specialists to MSG sprinkled on noodles.
Attracting these experts are an area of concern for Huawei.
[6]
“The company is in a critical period of strategic survival and development and must have talent to compete,” said Ren, who also said he plans to offer salaries and compensate at US levels to attract talent from the country that wrapped the tech giant up in [7]profit-crushing sanctions .
Ren offered a new research campus in Qingpu, Shanghai, as a place "beautiful and suitable for foreigners," complete with cafes. “If there are 700 or 800 foreign scientists working here, they will not feel that they are in a foreign country,” said Ren, according to [8]another, longer transcript of the meeting.
He does get quite enthusiastic about it. "There are very beautiful cafes on the roadside of the lake, suitable for modern youth and attracting all talents," Ren reiterated, referring to a nearby body of water that was likened to Lake Geneva.
[9]
One hopes these foreign boffins don't end up being [10]detained and used as [11]political leverage in China's confrontations with other nations.
[12]Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
[13]China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio
[14]New drinking game idea: Down a shot every time Huawei blames US sanctions for the current tech industry woes
[15]EE boffin: 5G will be the LAST WORD in mobe tech – literally
The chief exec said Huawei needed more theoretical breakthroughs, especially in the fields of semiconductors and material science, an area the telecoms equipment giant has invested heavily in with [16]declining success .
“Japan and the United States are basically leading the way,” said Ren, adding: “We must use the global platform to create our own success.”
Of those US sanctions giving Huawei so much trouble, Ren said they’ve cause product part quality to slip, but not to an unmanageable level.
“In the past two years, we have been sanctioned by the United States and no longer seek to use the best parts to make the best products. Under the scientific and reasonable method of system flow balance, we have also made high-quality products with reasonable parts,” said Ren.
Huawei reported an almost 30 percent year-on-year decline in Q2 2021 attributing the plunge to the impact of US sanctions on its smartphone business. ®
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[1] http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/202109/15/t20210915_36915829.shtml
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sanmigueelbeer
Here's an idea: Let the PRoC (and Huawei) pursue, R&D and produce 6G and the west come up with 6.1G or 7G as an alternative instead.
There are handsets that are GSM and CDMA standards. It has been done. It can be done.
Mark Exclamation
Play the game the way the Chinese do: just ignore or steal any Chinese patents. Simples.
And the detention of foreigners by the Chinese political system is a real and genuine threat. I certainly would never visit or work in China.
Reality check time
Their government has recently gone to cold war with every Western nation and is snatching foreigners off the streets based on their country of origin to use as leverage. How exactly do they plan to attract the sort of talent that has lucrative options at home and abroad everywhere that isn't China? Surely anyone with a Canadian, Australian or other Commonwealth passport is out, and the Guardian was recently reporting that the xenophobia being stoked by the government has led to regular violence against non-Chinese of all stripes in the streets. Now they turn around and say our bad we need you guys to help us monopolize technology to help feed that government.
Crazy part is they're probably far enough up their own asses to not see the issue. After all it benefits them, what else would anyone care about but China's benefit, even China's enemies. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.