On May 25, following the resignation of Huawei's "father of Hongmeng" not long ago, there was another news recently that former executives of Huawei Hisilicon changed jobs in MediaTek. For a time, it attracted great attention from the outside world. According to industry sources, MediaTek hired a former Hisilicon executive director to be responsible for chip research and development, mainly to enhance its ability to develop high-performance processors (HPC), server and base station chips and custom ASIC, but did not mention which former Hisilicon executive was**
Former Huawei Hisilicon executive job hopping MediaTek
Affected by the further escalation of sanctions against Huawei by the United States in May 2020, Huawei Hisilicon's self-developed chips have been unable to be manufactured since September 15, 2020, which has also brought great difficulties to Hisilicon.
Andrew Norwood, vice president of Gartner research, said in a recently released report: "Hisilicon's revenue decreased by 81% , from $8.2 billion in 2020 to $1.5 billion in 2021, with a significant decrease of $6.7 billion. This is a direct result of US sanctions against the company and its parent company Huawei."
Although Chen Lifang, Huawei's director, previously said that Huawei continues to develop world-leading semiconductor components internally, Hisilicon department will not make any decision on restructuring or layoffs.
Xu Zhijun, then vice chairman and rotating chairman of Huawei, also said: "there is no place to produce any chips of Hisilicon, and there is no profit at present. Huawei has no demand for profit, but it will always support the development of this team. This team can continue to do research, continue to develop, continue to accumulate and make some preparations for the future."
However, for a chip design company with more than 7000 people, if the designed chip cannot be manufactured, it means that it will be difficult to obtain revenue by selling chips. At the same time, it needs to invest huge funds to support a research and development team with more than 7000 people**
This also means that if the US ban cannot be lifted and the domestic advanced process "de beautifying" semiconductor production line cannot be established as soon as possible, Hisilicon will face huge losses every year.
At the same time, for the executives and R & D personnel inside Hisilicon, the chip cannot be streamed and produced, and the acquisition of EDA tools and IP is also limited, which means that the exertion of their own ability is greatly limited.
In this context, it is understandable that some executives and R & D personnel choose to change jobs. For chip design talents, MediaTek, which is currently in the forefront of the chip market, is indeed a good destination.
However, the disclosure did not mention which former Hisilicon executive was. In addition, the authenticity of the disclosure has not been further confirmed
Xinzhixun also contacted relevant people from Huawei and Hisilicon, and the other party said: "I haven't heard." We will continue to pay attention to the details.
Wang Chenglu, Huawei's "father of Hongmeng", resigned or will join "shenkaihong"
It is worth noting that just a few days ago, another senior executive of Huawei, Wang Chenglu, the head of Hongmeng operating system, known as the "father of Hongmeng", also resigned from Huawei. The news has been confirmed by Huawei.
At present, the official authentication of Wang Chenglu's microblog account has also been cancelled.
Wang Chenglu himself also posted a circle of friends and attached a photo of his job card with the text "for the memory of forgetting".
However, it is reported that Wang Chenglu did not leave, but chose to retire based on Huawei's 45 year old retirement policy. As for the subsequent whereabouts of Wang Chenglu, he may join the secondary developer of Hongmeng system "shenkaihong" (Shenzhen KaiHong Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd.)**
According to the official website, shenkaihong was founded in August 2021 with a registered capital of 500 million yuan and its headquarters is located in Futian District, Shenzhen. Taking the leader of intelligent Internet of things operating system as the strategic goal, the company focuses on the research, development and continuous innovation of intelligent Internet of things operating system (kaihongos) technology based on openharmony. Based on the fields of finance, pan government, energy, transportation, industry and consumption, shenkaihong focuses on the deep cultivation of intelligent Internet of things operating systems such as digital terminals, digital life and digital production, supporting software and hardware multi scene intelligent services, enabling thousands of industries and providing a solid digital base for Digital China. From open source to open source, shenkaihong is committed to building a win-win Internet of things operating system ecosystem, continuously broadening industry boundaries and realizing the interconnection of all things. It is worth mentioning that the main purpose of shenkaihong is to undertake the related businesses of Huawei Hongmeng.
From the perspective of equity structure, shenkaihong is a high-tech company focusing on the Internet of things operating system jointly established by Shenzhen capital operation group Co., Ltd. (an enterprise subordinate to Shenzhen SASAC), Hubble Technology Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (wholly owned by Huawei) and Beijing ChinaSoft International Information Technology Co., Ltd., in which Shenzhen capital operation group indirectly holds 29.5% and Shenzhen Hubble under Huawei holds 20%, China soft international holds 19.5%.
Some industry analysts pointed out that Huawei has donated the core layer of Hongmeng to the open atom open source foundation. In order to make other enterprises use the Hongmeng operating system, it also needs to add interactive capabilities to the Hongmeng operating system. Shenkaihong is to provide more enterprises with Hongmeng secondary development capabilities. This work is led by Wang Chenglu, which is technically reassuring. In addition, Wang Chenglu is the leader of Hongmeng operating system, It also has appeal. This is also a good thing for the industry. Many small and medium-sized enterprises need such services**
On April 28 this year, Yu Chengdong, executive director and CEO of terminal business of Huawei, disclosed that the number of Huawei devices equipped with Huawei harmonyos has reached 240 million, the number of global monthly live users of Huawei terminals is 730 million, the shipment volume of ecological equipment is 150 million, and there are more than 2000 ecological partners.
It is worth mentioning that today's people's Daily published an article entitled "let more domestic software show their talents, and it is time for the software industry to become bigger and stronger".
The article said that looking back on the 10-year development process of China's software industry, the industry's business revenue increased from about 2.5 trillion yuan in 2012 to about 9.5 trillion yuan in 2021, an increase of nearly three times, and has maintained a high double-digit growth.
Practice has repeatedly told us that key technologies cannot be bought, bought or begged. Especially at a time when information technology has a profound impact on the transformation and upgrading of all walks of life and is always related to the good life of thousands of families, China's software industry needs to firmly grasp the initiative of innovation and development in its own hands more than ever before.
At present, a new generation of information technology is in the ascendant and increasingly integrated into the whole process of various fields of economy and society. As an important base for the vigorous development of digital economy, it is time for the software industry to become bigger and stronger.
About Wang Chenglu's resume
Wang Chenglu graduated from Harbin University of technology with a doctorate in engineering. He is a veteran of Huawei Technology. He has worked in Huawei for 22 years. He has successively served as president of the core network product line, President of the central software institute and President of the consumer BG software department. He led the development of Hongmeng system. He is the real helmsman of Hongmeng system and is also known as the "father of Hongmeng".
While working in the central software institute, Wang Chenglu was responsible for developing Huawei software infrastructure 1.0, including operating system, database and programming framework. At that time, he had the idea of being Hongmeng.
At the end of 2016, Wang Chenglu shared Hongmeng for the first time at the consumer business retreat. In May 2017, Hongmeng kernel 1.0 completed the technical verification. In March 2018, shortly after Wang Chenglu reported to Ren Zhengfei in Beijing, Hongmeng officially approved the project of Huawei's consumer business.
In 2021, Wang Chenglu, as the person in charge of Huawei Hongmeng, said in an exclusive interview that Hongmeng is not a substitute for Android or IOS. Hongmeng is an operating system for the era of Internet of all things. Wang Chenglu admitted that in addition to a thorough understanding of all technologies of the operating system, it is also necessary to attract domestic and foreign industrial chain partners to participate in the construction of the ecological chain.