according to China's Huawei, the world's largest maker of telecommunication network equipment, does not see itself becoming the target of U.S. sanctions and will keep buying U.S. chips this year, one of its three rotating chairmen told a French newspaper. Huawei, also the world's third-largest smartphone maker, is a private company but has found itself battling perceptions of ties to the Chinese government, which it has repeatedly denied. Several U.S. lawmakers last month claimed its research funding to American universities posed a "significant threat" to national security, the latest difficulty Huawei has faced operating in the United States. Asked if he feared his company could also be hit by sanctions, Ken Hu, one of Huawei's rotating chairmen, told Le Journal du Dimanche:"It would be hard to imagine. We will therefore keep buying American chips this year."Earlier this year, U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet's Google to reconsider working with Huawei, which they described as a security threat.
Huawei says that it's on pace to overtake Apple in smartphone sales by 2019
After holding on to second place in global smartphone market share for years, Apple might have a worthy challenger. To put that number into perspective, South China Morning Post reports that Huawei shipped 153.1 million handsets in 2017. That wasn't nearly enough to top Apple's 215.8 million shipments, but if Huawei really can hit 200 million sales just a year later, it stands to reason that Apple could be in third place by the end of 2019. "Previously [we] reached the 100 million shipments mark on December 22, 2015, October 14, 2016 and September 12, 2017," said Richard Yu Chengdong. Nevertheless, it's an impressive achievement on Huawei's part, as will overtaking Apple as the second biggest brand on the planet.
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