Huawei turned to pig farming, adopting facial recognition technology

Tram Ho

Huawei should have become the world’s top smartphone maker last year. In early 2020, Huawei once surpassed Samsung and Apple to become the No. 1 smartphone maker. However, the new US sanctions dealt a heavy blow to Huawei, making the Chinese smartphone maker no longer. can manufacture their own processor chips for their mobile devices.

Huawei’s smartphone sales turned to decline by 42% in Q4 / 2020, when the US sanctions officially came into effect. Making or buying top-of-the-line chips for Huawei’s high-end smartphones becomes impossible.

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In November of last year, Huawei officially sold its Honor sub-brand in exchange for $ 15 billion, a big and significant sum in this difficult time. According to a recent report, Huawei’s smartphone sales are likely to drop 60% this year.

Under current circumstances, Huawei is looking for new sources of income, from completely new businesses, such as pig farming. Yes, you haven’t heard it wrong, the Chinese telecom and smartphone giant is turning to pig farming to offset the slump in revenue from its smartphone business.

In fact, pig farming is one of the major manufacturing industries in China, which accounts for 50% of the world’s pig production. Huawei is not only moving to pig farming, but also adopting the most advanced technologies in the industry, such as facial recognition technology.

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Huawei will also apply facial recognition technology to pig farming.

“Pig farming is an example of how we revive some traditional professions with ICT (information and communication technology) technology, to create more value,” said a Huawei representative. this profession in the 5G era ”.

Besides pig farming, Huawei will also enter some other new areas such as mining. Huawei founder and CEO, Nham Chinh Phi, vowed to turn mining workers into people wearing suits and ties to work. With Huawei technology, mining will require fewer workers, be more efficient and safer.

Mr. Nham affirmed that: “We can still survive even without relying on the smartphone business”. Even so, Huawei won’t give up on the smartphone business. Huawei is still expected to launch the P50 and Mate 50 smartphones, with self-developed HarmonyOS operating system installed on both of these high-end smartphones.

Reference: phonearena

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