Huawei's lead in 5G is well-documented, e.g. [1]. I left the 5G consultancy space in about 2021, but at the time Huawei was the only company that managed to put a CPU and a 5G modem on a single chip. As far as I am aware Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and MediaTek can also do this in 2023, but came later. I'm already not sure if Intel can do this as of April 2023.
> Huawei is superior tech and yet they have horrible code
What's hilarious about this? Most large scale software has terrible parts. I worked a lot with Cisco gear after graduating from university. Our team found lots of security vulnerabilities. Still Cisco routers were very good, in comparison with what was on the market. Huawei's breakthrough was largely in signal processing.
> US did find backdoors.
The article states that those Huawei 'backdoors' are, from your article: "backdoors intended for law enforcement". Those are a legal requirement. You cannot get telecom equipment certified in the US and EU if they don't have those backdoors.
Your points (1, 2) have nothing to do with what I have written, why do you side-track the conversation?
Well documented in Wired, lol! I would settle for just one peer-reviewed article in a reputed journal. Even written by Huawei authors.
> backdoors intended for law enforcement
When did Chinese law become global law?
> Your points (1, 2) have nothing to do with what I have written, why do you side-track the conversation?
Talking of sidetracking, didn't you mention Instagram vs TikTok? Lol.
Anyways, just like your Instagram vs TikTok comment, my comments are relevant. They are about companies banning other companies with superior tech. Claims of sidetracking are usually surfaced when there is no viable defense.
Not to mention, Huawei was caught with its pants down stealing code from Cisco.
> just one peer-reviewed article in a reputed journal.
You are upping the ante! Shouldn't a good leader lead by example? Where is your verifiable evidence of Huawei backdoors? I am working and publish in computer security, I am able to verify backdoors personally. Can you point me to such code?
Anyway, in addition to user "froh"'s points in a sibling post, here are more examples of Huawei technical leadership:
(1) An important NLP benchmark where Huawei is essentially as good as Microsoft and Google.
When did US law become global law? The point is: any telecom gear provider that wants to sell telecom gear in the EU or US is required to add law enforcement backdoors.
> Huawei was caught with its pants down stealing code from Cisco.
Like most companies in developing countries, they started out making knock-off gear. Over 3 decades they went from copying other people's ideas to world leadership in 5G. Congratulations!
Interesting, thanks. I didn't realise that it was already in 2020.
Huawei announced its first SoC with integrated 5G modem, the Kirin 990 [1], in September 2019. The Kirin 990 5G was featured in Huawei's flagship smartphone, the Mate 30, which was launched in the same month. So Huawei was only 1 year ahead of Qualcomm on the consumer side.
> Huawei is superior tech and yet they have horrible code
What's hilarious about this? Most large scale software has terrible parts. I worked a lot with Cisco gear after graduating from university. Our team found lots of security vulnerabilities. Still Cisco routers were very good, in comparison with what was on the market. Huawei's breakthrough was largely in signal processing.
> US did find backdoors.
The article states that those Huawei 'backdoors' are, from your article: "backdoors intended for law enforcement". Those are a legal requirement. You cannot get telecom equipment certified in the US and EU if they don't have those backdoors.
Your points (1, 2) have nothing to do with what I have written, why do you side-track the conversation?
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-break...