"Huawei stands at the heart of China’s technological ambitions. Founded in 1987 as a small supplier of telephone switches, Huawei has transformed into a globe-spanning giant, making over $100 billion a year selling everything from 5G infrastructure and video conferencing equipment to smartphones and smart watches. Huawei is a central actor in China’s Digital Silk Road Initiative, which aims to develop digital infrastructure around the world using Chinese technology. A partial subsidiary is currently connecting three continents with undersea cables, and now Huawei is providing the semiconductor chips and digital systems that drive China’s booming artificial intelligence and electric vehicle industries.

House of Huawei, a new book by Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou, offers a riveting account of Huawei’s rise and the enigmatic founder behind it all. Deeply researched and rich with detail, the book draws on a vast array of sources—from interviews with former Huawei executives and internal corporate documents to Ren Zhengfei’s own personal writings—to shed light on a company that has come to embody China’s emergence as a technological powerhouse.

The book is all the more impressive given the company’s notoriously secretive culture and the author’s limited official access to Huawei and its founder. What is Huawei trying to do exactly? Can the company be trusted? What does Huawei’s story reveal about China’s long-term ambitions? Through careful detective work, Eva Dou offers not a single definitive answer to these questions but enough facts and details for the reader to arrive at their own conclusion."

https://www.high-capacity.com/p/huawei-the-hydra

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