Huawei
Chinese multinational technology company
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| March 2025 | Huawei became the subject of a corruption investigation in Brussels, Belgium, with Belgian federal prosecutors examining potential bribery allegations targeting the European Parliament. The investigation draws parallels to the 2022 Qatargate scandal and focuses on potential 'active corruption' within the EU legislative body. |
| July 2024 | The German government announced an agreement with telecommunication companies to remove Chinese 5G equipment, including Huawei, by 2029. |
| June 21 2024 | Huawei announced that HarmonyOS is installed on over 900 million devices and has become the second most popular mobile OS in China. |
| June 21 2024 | At HDC 2024, Huawei launched PanGu 5.0 alongside HarmonyOS NEXT, integrating Harmony Intelligence with a smarter Celia (Xiaoyi). The upgrade focuses on generative AI capabilities and offers scalable model options for developers and businesses. |
| April 15 2024 | Huawei officially rebranded its P series as the 'Pura series', launching the Pura 70 as the first model under the new branding. |
| March 5 2024 | Counterpoint Research reported that Huawei's smartphone unit sales rose by 64% in the first six weeks of 2024, while Apple's sales fell 24%, indicating strong market performance for the Mate 60. |
| January 18 2024 | Huawei announced the Developer Preview transition for its new native developer kit, rolling out to registered developers. |
| December 2023 | The U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into Huawei's ability to obtain advanced chips, following the Mate 60's launch. |
| December 2023 | Huawei Mate 60 Pro+ was rated as the world's best smartphone camera by DxOMark, marking a significant achievement in mobile photography technology at the end of the year. |
| December 19 2023 | Huawei announced its financial services on the PanGu-powered AI Finance platform at the 2023 Huawei Cloud Fintech Summit, targeting the global market with advanced technologies including AI, big data analytics, and blockchain. |
| September 8 2023 | Huawei Mall launched the Mate 60 Pro+ pre-order page, continuing the high demand for the Mate 60 series. |
| September 3 2023 | The Mate 60 Pro went fully on-sale, with online platforms like Huawei Mall, Taobao, Tmall, and JD.com selling out all available colors in just one minute at 18:08. Huawei stores across China had long lines of customers waiting to purchase the device. |
| August 2023 | Huawei launched the Celia Virtual Assistant with advanced AI capabilities, capable of generating long text replies via voice commands, set to release with HarmonyOS 4.0 for eligible devices. |
| August 2023 | Costa Rica issued a decree barring firms from countries that have not signed the Budapest Convention on cybercrime, effectively blocking Huawei from 5G network development. |
| August 30 2023 | Huawei Mall launched the Mate 60 pre-order page, generating significant customer interest. |
| August 5 2023 | Huawei partnered with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to launch a global weather forecasting AI model using PanGu-Weather Model with MindSpore, accessible on the ECMWF website. |
| August 4 2023 | At HDC, Huawei revealed the next iteration of HarmonyOS with a bundled native HMS Core framework, focusing on privacy, on-device AI, and ecosystem integration. |
| July 7 2023 | Huawei officially announced the PanGu multimodal large language model, named after the mythological character Pangu from Chinese folklore. |
| April 2023 | Huawei released a research paper detailing PanGu-Σ, a large language model with 1.085 trillion parameters, developed within the MindSpore 5 framework. The model was trained for over 100 days on a 512-chip Ascend 910 AI accelerator cluster, processing 329 billion tokens across more than 40 languages. |
| February 2023 | Huawei joined the UNESCO Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL) as an associate member and partnered with UNESCO's Global Skills Academy. |
| December 2022 | The PEACE cable went live with a design capacity of 16Tbit/s per fiber pair. |
| November 2022 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bans sales or import of Huawei equipment due to national security concerns, with several other countries following suit. |
| October 2022 | The UK extended the deadline for removing core Huawei equipment from network functions to the end of 2023, with a complete phase-out of Huawei gear from 5G network planned by the end of 2027. |
| September 30 2022 | Number of apps integrated with HMS Core grew to 220,000, demonstrating continued expansion of the Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem |
| May 2022 | Canada banned Huawei and ZTE equipment from its 5G network, with network operators given until 28 June 2024 to remove existing installations. |
| May 13 2022 | Huawei reported plans to fully support an open source version of HarmonyOS by the end of 2022, which did not materialize due to open source governance challenges. |
| 2021 | Brazil reversed its previous ban and allowed Huawei to participate in its 5G network. |
| September 27 2021 | LeTV hosted a smartphone business communication meeting in Beijing, showcasing the LeTV S1, which became the first third-party smartphone to include Huawei Mobile Services. |
| July 15 2021 | Huawei expanded HMS with HarmonyOS support through HMS Core 6.0, enabling app development across various device types including smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and car machines. |
| June 2021 | HMS Core 6.0 was launched with extended services support. The HMS ecosystem reached 4 million registered developers and 134,000 integrated apps |
| 2020 | Huawei surpasses Samsung to become the largest smartphone manufacturer worldwide. |
| 2020 | India announced the removal of Huawei telecommunication gear and blocked the company from participating in the country's 5G network following China-India skirmishes. |
| 2020 | Huawei sells the Honor brand to a state-owned enterprise of the Shenzhen government to ensure its survival under US sanctions. |
| November 2020 | Telus Mobility dropped Huawei in favor of Samsung, Ericsson, and Nokia for their 5G/Radio Access Network. |
| September 2020 | HMS Core 5.0 was launched, marking a significant milestone in Huawei Mobile Services development |
| June 2020 | HMS Core services were available in more than 55,000 apps |
| March 2020 | HMS was being used by 650 million monthly active users across 170 countries. |
| February 2020 | Huawei expanded Huawei Mobile Services to Europe and other markets including Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Canada, and Mexico. |
| January 16 2020 | Huawei held a developer day event in London and invested £20 million to encourage developers in the United Kingdom and Ireland to use HMS. |
| January 15 2020 | HMS Core 4.0 was officially launched, with Huawei reporting 1.3 million developers and 55,000 applications on the platform. |
| 2019 | Huawei transitioned from Android to its proprietary HarmonyOS mobile operating system due to US sanctions and trade war. |
| 2019 | Vietnam excluded Huawei from bids to build the country's 5G network due to national security concerns. |
| 2019 | AppGallery claimed 180 billion app downloads during this year. |
| December 2019 | Ren Zhengfei announces that the Santa Clara research center will be moved to Canada. |
| December 24 2019 | Huawei officially launched Huawei Mobile Services in China as a beta version, signaling the start of their independent mobile services platform. |
| June 2019 | Huawei cuts jobs at its Santa Clara research center. |
| May 16 2019 | Google was prohibited from working with Huawei on new devices, preventing updates to Google services and marking a critical turning point for HMS development. |
| April 2019 | Huawei established the Huawei Malaysia Global Training Centre (MGTC) at Cyberjaya, Malaysia. |
| 2018 | Japan banned Huawei from receiving government contracts, citing national security concerns. |
| 2018 | Huawei surpasses Apple to become the largest smartphone manufacturer worldwide. |
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