19日 ,美方表示将把华为购买美国产品的“临时许可证”再次延长90天,截止日期大约是11月19日。
“对美国电信企业来说,这又是90天时间,” 美国商务部长罗斯(Wilbur Ross)在福克斯商业频道(Fox Business)节目上说,“美国一些农村企业依赖华为,所以我们给它们多一点时间来‘摆脱’华为。”对此,华为方面发表声明称,美国政府发布的延期临时许可,没有改变华为被不公正对待的事实。这种做法违反市场经济的自由竞争原则,不会使任何一方从中受益。
On Monday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a 90-day reprieve for Huawei, extending its temporary general license until November 19. At the same time, another 46 Huawei affiliates were added to the "Entity List", which restricts some U.S. companies from selling their products to Huawei, raising the total number to more than 100.
Huawei responded to the move by calling it "politically motivated," claiming it "has nothing to do with national security."
"These actions violate the basic principles of free-market competition. They are in no one's interests, including U.S. companies. Attempts to suppress Huawei's business won't help the United States achieve technological leadership," said the company's official statement.
"The extended temporary general license issued by the U.S. government does not change the fact that Huawei was treated unfairly. The extension won't have a substantial impact on Huawei's business, and we will continue to focus on developing the best possible products and providing the best possible services to our customers around the world."
The tech giant urged the U.S. to put an end to unjust treatment and remove it from the "Entity List".
2018年12月,应美国要求,华为副董事长、首席财务官孟晚舟在加拿大温哥华被捕。美国“围剿”华为大戏拉开帷幕,一直以来“低调神秘”的华为成为国际焦点。
It all started with Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's arrest in Canada at the request on a U.S. warrant in December 2018.
在美方这样的“极限施压”下,华为及其美国供应商的营收又怎么样呢?
根据华为7月30日发布的2019上半年财报来看,华为依然保持着高速增长(同比23.2%)。
Huawei CEO Richard Yu said on August 9 in south China's Guangdong Province that without the sanctions, Huawei's smartphone shipment would likely have been the world's largest in that period.
倒是其美国供应商们,深深感受了一把“人间冷暖”——根据各大公司7月底发布的财报,英特尔、高通、AMD等华为美国供应商当季营收全线下跌。
英特尔(Intel):营收同比下降3%,净利润同比下跌17%高通(Qualcomm):营收同比下降13%,且全年芯片出货额预计将同比下跌31%-41%。AMD:营收同比下降13%,净利润同比下跌70%伟创力(Flex):净利润同比下跌61.32%美光(Micron):营收同比下降62.8%,净利润同比下跌78%……
Qualcomm's Q3 FY2019 financials
Flex's First Quarter FY 2020 financials
Sanctions didn't stop the company from preparing for the future.
8月9日,在华为有史以来最大的发布会上,鸿蒙操作系统正式登场。尽管华为方面曾多次表示,鸿蒙是为物联网开发,手机产品会优先使用安卓,但该公司消费者业务CEO余承东在鸿蒙发布会上直言,“如果安卓不能用,鸿蒙随时可用。”
余承东还表示,如果有需要,鸿蒙只需要一两天就可以切换到手机上替代安卓系统。鸿蒙完全兼容安卓系统的应用系统,而且比安卓系统最高可以提升超过60%的性能。
On August 9, Huawei officially revealed its homegrown operating system (OS) "Harmony," previously known as HongmengOS, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (HDC 2019) in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong Province.
Notably, when talking about how Huawei can no longer access Google's Android ecosystem, the Shenzhen-based high-tech giant assured the crowd that the shift of HarmonyOS to smartphones would only take "a day or two."8月10日,华为旗下品牌荣耀发布了首款搭载华为鸿蒙操作系统的智能终端——荣耀智慧屏。按华为的计划,鸿蒙将率先应用在智能手表、智慧屏、车载设备、智能音箱等智能终端上。
Huawei's first device Harmony OS device came into the spotlight just a day after the system was released
The Honor Vision and the Honor Vision Pro, which have been widely rumored as Huawei's smart TVs, were shown to the public by Richard Yu during the product launch.8月16日,华为首席执行官任正非接受了英国天空电视台采访,状态看起来十分不错。谈到美国禁令会有什么影响,任正非回应称:“如果美国封锁,不让谷歌提供安卓系统给我们的话,世界上出现第三种系统,对美国称霸世界也是不利的。
On August 16, Ren Zhengfei had an exclusive interview with the British broadcaster Sky TV.
Referring to the U.S.' ban on Huawei's enterprise and its influence, Ren Zhengfei responded: "If the U.S. government does not allow Google to provide the Android operating system, then the world may have a third operating system—and that is actually a threat to the U.S. current dominating status in the technology industry."
当被问及“实际是美国政府帮了华为”时,任正非竖起大拇指,大笑着回应称——
“没有特朗普的宣传,全世界都不知道华为这么厉害,”任正非还夸奖特朗普道。他的回答甚至让在场的工作人员都忍俊不禁。Ren also mentioned Trump with a smile: "Without Trump's propaganda, the world might still not know that Huawei is so highly effective and so good."
"We don't pay much attention to which countries purchase us and which do not. On the contrary, our biggest problem is that we are so welcomed by the market and the demand surpasses much more than the amount that we can supply", he added.另外,自今年5月被列入“实体清单”后至今,华为又签订了11份5G合同,目前总数为50份,领先于全球另外两家主要5G供应商诺基亚(43份)和爱立信(23份)。“我们现在不在乎哪个国家买我们的、不买我们的,我们现在根本的问题是卖不过来。”