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Today, at the Global Developers Conference held in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Huawei officially released its own operating system: Hongmeng OS!
As soon as the news came out, public opinion exploded.
Drawing on its advantages of lightweight, small and powerful functions, Hongmeng OS will take the lead in applying smart end points such as smart watches, smart screens, in-vehicle devices, and smart speakers to build a cross-end point integrated sharing ecosystem and create a new experience of full-scene smart life.
Although it was not explicitly mentioned whether it would be used on mobile phones, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, said that if the Android system cannot be used, Huawei can use the Hongmeng system at any time.
The material brother found that behind Huawei’s support for the new system of the Internet of Things in the 5G era is an upgrade from hardware to ecological competition in Guangdong.
From "intelligent manufacturing" to ecological construction, Hongmeng OS showcases the new benchmark of "intelligent manufacturing" in Guangdong
It is no accident that Huawei chose Hongmeng OS to launch in Dongguan. As a major smartphone manufacturing province, Dongguan has formed an industrial chain pattern dominated by the production of domestic mobile phone brands, with components and modules, batteries and peripheral accessories as the main supporting parts. With the help of OPPO and vivo manufacturers, Dongguan Chang’an Town was once called "the first town of smartphones in China".
In 2012, Huawei moved to Dongguan, making Dongguan the "world factory" once again the focus of global public opinion. So far, Huawei, OPPO, vivo and other domestic first-line brand machine manufacturers have gathered in Dongguan, and with the advantage of the complete mobile phone industry chain here, they have continuously achieved upgrading and revenue growth, and finally have been able to rise strongly, with production and shipments rising steadily.
In addition to Dongguan, Shenzhen and Huizhou also have unique advantages in equipment manufacturing and other fields, and are constantly providing brands with support in various aspects such as industrial chain, technology and channels. At present, the province’s mobile phone and other smart device industries have shown an industrial layout centered on "Shenguanhui" and supported by the east bank of the Pearl River and other cities in the Pearl River Delta.
In terms of the industrial chain, in recent years, the Guangdong smart device industry has developed from simple assembly and processing to a complete production line for the whole chain, covering wafer manufacturing, chip design, fingerprint identification, cameras, touch screens, LCD modules, glass covers, batteries, PCB, ODM/OEM and other upstream and downstream fields.
After decades of exploration, Guangdong has gradually formed a trend of innovation-driven development. Since 2012, Guangdong has taken innovation-driven development as the core strategy, priority strategy and general breakthrough point, built a national science and technology industry innovation center, built a national independent innovation demonstration zone in the Pearl River Delta, and accelerated the formation of an economic system and development model led and supported by innovation.
Previously, according to the "China Regional Innovation Capability Evaluation Report 2018" released by the China Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy, Guangdong Province’s regional innovation general capabilities ranked first in the country in 2018, which is also Guangdong’s first place for two consecutive years.
After establishing the high ground of intelligent hardware, Guangdong "Intelligent Manufacturing" has turned to a new ecological battlefield – launching a charge against the operating system.
Facing the future, Huawei seizes new opportunities in the 5G Internet of Things
We know that the PC era has created the Windows operating system, the mobile Internet era has created Android (Android) and iOS operating systems, and now the Internet of Things era is rapidly rising, what operating system will it create?
The Android system has been so successful on smartphones, can it be directly replicated in the field of the Internet of Things? The answer is no. Fragmentation, low efficiency, ecological chaos, and in the face of diverse Internet of Things, the Android system is more than capable.
As Yu Chengdong said, Android phones currently have less than 2G of memory, but many Internet of Things (IoT) devices have very small memory, which poses a problem of functional mismatch.
Google is aware of this. In early July, Google launched the developer website of Fuchsia OS, which was seen as the official start of Google’s layout of the Internet of Things. Fuchsia is seen as a new generation of operating systems that Google adapts to the Internet of Things era and replaces Android.
Yu Chengdong believes that the future development direction of the operating system is the microkernel, while the Android operating system is based on the macro-kernel architecture. The next-generation operating system Fuchsia is not a distributed design, and its performance is not good enough.
As a 5G leader, Huawei has ushered in its opportunity. At this conference, Huawei announced the evolution roadmap of Hongmeng kernel and OS, and will take the lead in using Hongmeng OS 1.0 in the first smart screen products launched this year. In the next three years, in addition to improving related technologies, Hongmeng OS will gradually be applied to more smart devices such as wearables, smart screens, and cars.
For example, when you listen to music, you can play it on the TV when you get home, and you can project it to the car screen when you get in the car; your watch does not have a camera, or the PC camera is not easy to use, but you can use the mobile phone camera to shoot, and one account is shared and interoperable.
Liu Gang, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, analyzed that whether it is Google’s Fuchsia or Huawei’s Hongmeng system, their ultimate goal is to replace the 4G Android system.
Huawei’s confidence: Interoperability standards are widely supported by the industry
The hardest part about operating systems is the development of ecosystems.
However, this is still a lot of confidence for Huawei. First of all, Huawei has been working hard to promote interoperability for a long time, establishing the Hi-Link standard, which has been widely supported by the industry. Chinese manufacturers and global overseas well-known brands, including Siemens, Panasonic and other companies, have become the most widely supported smart home protocols. 260 brands, 30 million devices, this number is increasing every day, and there is chip support to provide help for smart homes, "a lot of friends".
The key to the ecosystem lies in applications and developers. In order to rapidly promote the ecological development of Hongmeng OS, Hongmeng OS will open source to developers around the world, and promote the establishment of an open source foundation to establish an open source community. Yu Chengdong announced that Hongmeng OS is open-source, allowing developers around the world to participate and build a global operating system.
For applications that are already in the Android ecosystem and migrated to Huawei Hongmeng OS, Yu Chengdong said that the development workload is very small, and even using the Ark compiler to link with Huawei’s ecosystem may be completed in a day or two.
The problem with the Android system was that it was easy to get stuck, and Huawei’s Ark Compiler solved this problem. All software in the Android system could communicate directly with the bottom layer of the system after being compiled by the Ark Compiler. Hongmeng System + Ark Compiler joined forces to make the experience surpass Android.
However, the construction of the ecosystem ultimately requires a process. As Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, said, it will take two or three years to rebuild a good ecosystem, but we are confident that relying on China to build the ecosystem globally. First, the Chinese market has huge applications; second, China’s mass content service providers are eager to go overseas.
Liu Gang concluded that in the near future, Huawei may also establish an ecosystem like Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
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In addition to the operating system, Huawei also has a "divine beast army"
In fact, not only Huawei’s operating system, Hongmeng OS, but also the Kirin chip was taken out separately at the developer conference to invite the outside world to build an ecosystem.
Whether it is "Hongmeng" or "Qilin", they have one thing in common, which is Huawei’s "Divine Beast Army". In Huawei’s registered trademarks, there are also Zilong, Haotian, Blue Bird, Suzaku, etc.
Since the beginning of this year, Huawei has released a series of chips and server platform products. On January 7, it released the server chip "Kunpeng" and the server platform "Taishan"; just 17 days later, it released the 5G base station core chip "Tiangang" again; on March 4, it released the baseband chip "Balong"; in May, new products carrying Huawei’s self-developed router chip "Lingxiao" entered the market.
With the previously released artificial intelligence chip "Puteng", the Internet of Things operating system "Hongmeng", and the available mobile phone chip "Kirin", Huawei’s "Divine Beast Army" has taken shape.
It is these "divine beast legions" that ensure that the main lines of Huawei’s four owners will not be "stuck" under extreme circumstances.
The mobile phone chip "Kirin", mainly a smartphone chip solution, has reached the world’s leading level in terms of performance.
The server chip "Kunpeng" is used to "protect" Huawei’s enterprise business. Huawei’s enterprise business product line includes servers, storage, and network equipment. With "Kunpeng", Huawei’s enterprise business and cloud business can continue to operate in principle.
When Brother Liu visited Huawei’s headquarters, he clearly remembered placing an enlarged picture in a prominent position: it was a scarred fighter jet. The reason it successfully returned was that it was not hit by the key points, such as the fuel tank and engine. And the "Divine Beast Army" is Huawei’s "fuel tank" and "engine".
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