In a New Year’s message, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co.’s chief financial officer and daughter of its founder, praised the company’s breakthroughs in 2025 and vowed to seize “strategic opportunities” amid the “wave of intelligence in all aspects of life and work.”
Meng said in a letter released on Tuesday that the U.S.-sanctioned telecommunications equipment maker plays a central role in China’s push for technological self-sufficiency and has “laid a solid foundation for computing” in 2025 by expanding its Kunpeng and Ascend chip ecosystems.
Meng said Huawei’s Ascend AI processor has attracted more than 3,000 partners and 4 million developers, while the company’s server central processor Kunpeng has attracted more than 6,800 partners and 3.8 million developers.
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Huawei unveiled its Ascend AI chip development blueprint three months ago, with the Shenzhen-based company saying it was confident it could build an AI hardware system comparable to Nvidia’s. At the time, Huawei said it had developed “the world’s most powerful” super node computing cluster based on Ascend chips to help bolster the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions.
Meng Wanzhou spoke at the company’s 2022 annual report press conference in Shenzhen on March 31, 2023. Photo: AFP alt=Meng Wanzhou speaks at a press conference on the company’s 2022 annual report in Shenzhen on March 31, 2023. Photo: AFP>
Meng said its Atlas 900 super node system is a world-leading artificial intelligence training cluster that uses thousands of Ascend chips and serves multiple industries, including the Internet, finance, telecommunications and power grid operators.
“The new journey in the intelligent era has begun,” Meng said. In the new year, Huawei will make its cluster and super node technologies “more accessible” to form a “solid AI computing backbone.”
Meng also highlighted progress on its HarmonyOS Next mobile platform, which is currently running on more than 36 million devices. Looking back on the past year, the company “faced challenges with resilience” [and] Use professional knowledge to create value,” Meng wrote.
Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, resumed her six-month rotating chairmanship in October, which will last until March 31.
Her 1,000-word update was significantly shorter than her late-2024 letter, in which she praised the company’s resilience on multiple fronts, including artificial intelligence chip development and the growing popularity of HarmonyOS, while highlighting the efforts of employees and partners behind these breakthroughs.
