Ren Zhengfei reveals Huawei's future strategic development direction

In May of this year, Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei, held a symposium with many Fellows. The content of the discussion was recently exposed. At the meeting, Ren Zhengfei answered Huawei's strategic development direction in the future, as well as the views on VR and artificial intelligence and the judgment on Huawei's future development.

Regarding Huawei's positioning, Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei should be a pipeline operating system, the following operation pipeline, the above intermediate platform is network integration, and the ability to be open to the upper, all the content is brought in, to achieve the three-point connection of the pipeline, that is, any two Points can be switched on via a transfer point. The pipeline operating system "does not touch the content, does not touch the data", is not to create two concrete sandwich walls to separate the source. In supporting others, we must fully understand the needs of our customers, including the content needs of the other party. Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei does not touch military industry, and does not touch secrets. Private enterprises must abide by their duties.

Ren Zhengfei believes that human society is in a turning point and will become a smart society in the next two or three decades. The intelligent society is the society of information explosion. Huawei can't just gamble in one direction like a small company, but it needs multi-path and multi-tier research. Ren Zhengfei said that today we are actually engineering businessmen. Even at the level of innovation, it is actually an innovation in the engineering field, not an innovation in the field of technical theory. Because we still can't touch the foot of technological innovation, but we touched scientists and professors in the field of technology.

Regarding Huawei's decision-making method, Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei has two decision-making systems. One decision-making system is a technology-centered ideal system. One decision-making system is based on the customer's needs and the strategy of MarkeTIng's realism. The two systems debated in the middle and then reached a compromise on development goals.

For the development of the VR industry, Ren Zhengfei believes that VR needs low latency, and we can't do it now. Therefore, we must rationally understand the laws of VR/AR industry development and maintain strategic patience. AR/VR is growing too fast and there will be bubbles. VR will have a bubble period in the future. The reason is that no one can solve the delay problem. Therefore, we emphasize that more should be done on the basic research, take the road of post-production, and prepare the "shoal squid". Fish in the mud, only the strong can touch the fish. If you don't have the ability, you can't get a fish, even a shoal.

For the decline in sales of Apple's iPhone, Ren Zhengfei believes that the terminal is the most needed display for human civilization, and there will be no future. However, at present, we are not enough to invest, and we have not fully grasped the opportunities for human social development. Apple is very rich, but it is too conservative; Huawei has no money, but it is as crazy as a rich man. If Apple doesn't dare to invest, it can only follow us, and Huawei will become as rich as Apple.

For the development of mobile chips, Ren Zhengfei said that the network standards range from simple to complex, and as technology advances, standards will become more and more simple. In this alternation process, it is easy to produce "black swan". Intel's failure in the mobile chip business may be due to their lack of understanding of communication standards. Cisco used to be so rich, why not enter the wireless arena? We really have no money today because we have all the money for everyone.

Regarding the idea that artificial intelligence replaces human beings, Ren Zhengfei said that human production and service processes may be artificially intelligent. In the past, we expected material wealth and spiritual wealth to be realized, at least spiritual wealth is possible. After 80 years of existence, human beings may have died, but new human beings can separate the soul from the body, put the "soul" in the database, and change the body of a machine to become a 20-year-old girl of 80 years old wisdom; In 80 years, it became a 20-year-old girl with 160 years of wisdom... and then, it may have a thousand years of wisdom. Such a human-created TV series will no longer have anti-Japanese dramas because it understands history and understands science. New human beings must be smarter than our true human beings, making our production and services intelligent.

Regarding the development of Huawei in the next 20 or 30 years, Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei's future development means that we will be alive and will succeed! Because we had blown up the top of the talent "pyramid" seven or eight years ago. The “pyramid” is a closed model. How wide is the view of the person at the spire and how big is the “pyramid”. Now that the spire has been blasted, a lot of elites have been combined. The strategic direction and the direction of advancement are all explored by everyone, rather than relying on one person to judge the situation. The biggest problem for the big forces is that the direction cannot be wrong. There is no mistake in the direction of the big forces, and we will not perish. The world bigger than the world is your heart. (易科)

The following is a summary of the symposium:

Human society is in a turning point and will become a smart society in the next two or three decades. The intelligent society is the society of information explosion. This period is full of great opportunities, and there is no direction, no strength to fight can not produce value. Without the correct assumptions, there is no correct direction; without the right direction, there is no correct thinking; without correct thinking, there is no correct theory; without the correct theory, there will be no correct strategy. No one now knows what the future social structure is, but we can assume that given the growing traffic, it gives us the opportunity. We can't just gamble in one direction like a small company, but multi-path and multi-tier research. I once talked about the future working methods at the British Institute, but did not mention the direction of work. Our company has strength now, but is the direction correct? What is the future society like? Let's discuss together and fully listen to everyone's opinions. It can be regarded as "a cup of coffee absorbs cosmic energy." Please ask the experts to speak freely.