Publicly Huawei has expressed that their priority remains survival following severe restrictions placed on the Chinese giant by the US leadership. But a pivot towards recruiting Taiwanese talent reveals their greater ambition – prospering through self-reliance.
In an opening salvo for 2020, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman Eric Xu made it clear that the company’s topmost priority is survival.
But closer scrutiny reveals that ‘survival’ is an assertion of Huawei’s vision for self-reliance. Under the auspices of Made in China 2025, the key for Huawei’s survival is developing its own indigenous technologies – an ambition conceived in the pre-Trump era.
Under the National Medium- and Long-term Talent Development Plan , China detailed talent targets to advance its independent innovation. Since 2014, Huawei subsidiaries Xunwei Tech and HiSilicon have been recruiting highly skilled engineers from Taiwanese mobile chip companies such as MStar and Faraday Technology Corporation. Huawei also headhunted key talent from HTC’s research and development team. Last December, Taiwan’s National Communications Commission suspended sales of three Huawei smartphone units after Huawei listed Taiwan as part of China in the time zone and contacts menu. The re-election of nationalist Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in January presents a renewed possibility that Taiwan could curb China’s access to leading semiconductor suppliers like TSMC.
Washington is allegedly offering TSMC the opportunity to start manufacturing its chips in the United States to prevent Chinese interference.
Taiwan’s National Communications Commission suspended sales of three Huawei smartphone units after Huawei listed Taiwan as part of China in the time zone and contacts menu
This article was written by MARK MANANTAN
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