Huawei actually started planning its own mobile phone operating system, Hongmeng, as early as 2012. It was not until 2018 that the United States took the lead in launching a trade war against China and began to cut off supplies and impose sanctions in cutting-edge technology fields. Because Huawei is significantly ahead of Western countries in the field of 5G communications, it has aroused great anxiety in the United States. Not only did they cut off the supply of chips to Huawei in the technical field and obstruct the development of the 5G field, they also illegally detained the children of the founder for political purposes without a bottom line. of persecution. After this series of events, Huawei gave up its fantasy and began to speed up the development of its own operating system. On August 24, 2018, it applied for the Huawei Hongmeng trademark. On May 17, 2019, Ren Zhengfei personally led a team to officially develop the Hongmeng system. On August 9, 2019, Huawei The Hongmeng system was released and announced as open source. It subsequently went through rapid iterative development of multiple versions until HarmonyOS 2 and a number of new products equipped with HarmonyOS 2 were officially released on June 2, 2021. This also means that "mobile phones equipped with HarmonyOS (Hongmeng)" have become official products for the market.
Almost at the same time as the release of HarmonyOS, Huawei has begun to make major moves to enter the core technology of the chip field. --Lithography machine. According to public information queried by Tianyancha, Hubble Technology Investment Co., Ltd. has invested in Beijing Keyi Hongyuan Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. on June 2. This investment company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei, and the owner of the company that invested in the shares The business is lithography machines. Other major shareholders of this company include the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Yizhuang State Investment Corporation.
According to the company's public information, Beijing Keyi Hongyuan Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. is the industrialization carrier of the results of the national 02 major project "Excimer Laser Technology", relying on the shareholder units, the Institute of Optoelectronics and the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences With the technological foundation and the industrial and capital strength of Yizhuang State Investment and Guoke Holdings, we are committed to building an independent innovative enterprise, meeting the needs of the country and the market with excimer laser technology and products with independent intellectual property rights, and becoming a respected professional quasi-precision enterprise. Molecular laser technology solution provider.
This is a core parts company for lithography machines. Its main products are DUV (deep ultraviolet) lithography light source product series. It is a supplier of domestic lithography machines. Beijing Keyi is the number one 193nm ArF excimer laser company in China and the third in the world. The light source system is also one of the three core technologies of lithography machines. Therefore, we can naturally think that Huawei may lay out the industrial chain of photolithography machines, such as R&D and production of related core components (objective lens system, exposure optical system, immersion system, etc.) and supporting photolithography industry (photoresist, photolithography Gases, etc.), Huawei, companies in these related fields, may jointly participate in or conduct independent research and development in the future, thereby achieving the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency. Maybe Huawei has already taken full action, but outsiders haven't noticed it yet. Back then, when we didn't have enough to eat, scientists still built the atomic bomb and sent satellites to the sky. As long as the Chinese people work hard, it will be possible. There will be a moment when you witness a miracle!
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