Inside Huawei’s AI and cloud-based strategy

Huawei held its 16th global analyst summit in Shenzhen last week, with the annual gathering well- timed given the ongoing geo-political and security concerns that have engulfed the company.

This year’s event felt somewhat different to previous occasions, with a greater focus on new areas such as moving down the stack into semiconductors and innovation rather than focusing solely on 5G.

A common theme throughout the two day event, which began with a keynote delivered by Ken Hu, the company’s deputy chairman, was intelligent connectivity.

Hu outlined his vision that “the intelligent world is coming” in which physical input has been eliminated. According to Hu, there will be no remote, no…