They entered a market dominated by 3 players (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu) and went from not even on the list to 2nd place with 17.4% share over the course of 1 year, and this is deemed a failure? This is equivalent to a new player entering the US cloud market, leapfrogging GCP and Azure in a year, and then deciding to exit the business because they haven't caught up to AWS yet.
>Caixin reported an internal memo revealed Huawei’s server and storage products unit will become part of the Internet Products and Solutions Department, which will be renamed ICT Product Solution and handle product R&D.
For the rest I know too little about Chinese cloud offerings etc.
》 revenue generated by Huawei Cloud grew 168% year on year.
Combined with their chip design expertise - they were making chips that were as good or better than the Snapdragons, its clear why the US needed them kneecapped.
We as consumers lose when competition is stifled.
Which ones? And how were they better?
No doubt in my mind that had it not been for the sanctions Huawei would be the top selling mobile phone brand even eating into Apple's highend market.
This page lists some of the chips made Huawei:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSilicon
There are some rumours that Samsung will start to manufacture their chips but the most interesting stuff will happen when mainland Chinese fabs become good enough at highend manufacturing. Then China will probably return the favour and start to ban American chips from the Chinese market.
[0]https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/12/04/chip-battle-snapdragon...
They key difference (outside of China being more adversarial in general) is that Chinese companies like Huawei blatantly steal IP from companies in those countries to make their tech.
Also, Huawei is essentially an arm of China's intelligence apparatus, so keeping them at a far distance from other counties' infrastructure is generally a good idea.
This isn't a protectionist thing, it's a corporate espionage and national security thing.
Look into their supply lines you will find that the core components are most likely US made so they have those companies by their balls. Or look into ownership breakdown might be that big US finance pretty much owns the companies voting wise.
Took ASML the core component the light source is a US product, with out that product ASML can't produce their EUV devices.
