According to the transcript of the February speech posted by
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ren Zhengfei said Huawei had over the past three
years replaced the 13,000 components with domestic Chinese substitutes and had
redesigned 4,000 circuit boards for its products.
He said production of circuit boards had
"stabilized."
The remarks, which Reuters could not independently verify,
provided a window into Huawei's efforts to bounce back from U.S. trade
restrictions. Since 2019, Huawei, a major supplier of equipment used in 5G
telecommunications networks, has been the target of successive rounds of U.S.
export controls.
Those controls cut off both Huawei's supply of chips from
U.S. companies and its access to U.S. technology tools to design its own chips
and have them manufactured by partners. The Biden administration last year also
banned the sale of new Huawei equipment in the U.S.
Ren made the remarks in a talk to Chinese technology experts
on Feb. 24, the university said. The university posted the transcript on its
website on Friday. A U.S.-based Huawei representative did not immediately
respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Ren said Huawei invested $23.8 billion in research and
development in 2022, and "as our profitability improves, we'll continue to
increase R&D spending."
The founder said the company had built its own enterprise
resource planning system, called MetaERP. To launch in April, it will help run
its core business functions, including finance, supply chain and manufacturing
operations.
Ren said Huawei has no plans to launch a rival to the wildly
popular large language model AI ChatGPT, but said Microsoft Corp , the backer
of the application's developer OpenAI, would not be the only dominant player.
He said Huawei is focusing on being the "underlying computing power
platform" of AI.
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