huawei: Huawei says it’s out of ‘crisis mode’ even though revenue hasn’t changed
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.China’s first global tech brand, struggling ever since – US president Donald Trump blocked access to American processor chips and other technologies in 2019 on the grounds that Huawei could facilitate Chinese espionage.
Huawei has denied allegations that this could be a security risk.
Huawei’s unaudited revenue is projected to be 636.9 billion yuan ($91.6 billion) in 2022, almost unchanged from a year earlier and in line with earlier estimates.
Xu said in the release that the firm’s telecommunications network business has maintained “solid growth” and that the downturn in the device sector, mainly phones, has eased.
He also said the firm has seen “rapid growth” in its cloud business.
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Huawei did not release more detailed financial data about its business or the firm’s overall earnings. Next year, Xu pledged to maintain Huawei’s significant investment in research and development and said its cloud business should be the “backbone” to drive growth.
He made only a passing mention of the pandemic, praising the company’s “front line staff outside of China – those who have held on to serve our customers despite the adverse impact of COVID-19…”
Xu’s post made no mention of the recent abrupt end to strict virus controls or the major coronavirus outbreaks sweeping China and other countries.