The event was broadcast in many countries, including Pakistan, and was held to introduce the company’s annual report for 2022.
Officials from the company predict that Huawei smartphones will soon be available again in Pakistani market. Huawei executives in Pakistan told the media at a recent event that the re-launch of smartphones in Pakistani market was scheduled for the end of this year or the start of 2024.
The event was broadcast in many countries, including Pakistan, and was held to introduce the company’s annual report for 2022. Following Eric Xu, chairman of Huawei,’s last week’s criticism of Chinese export controls on American technology, this development has occurred.
At a press conference, he told reporters that US sanctions would cause China’s chip industry to “reborn.” An official translation of Mr. Xu’s remarks states, “I believe China’s semiconductor industry will not sit idly by but take efforts around… self-strengthening and self-reliance.”
He declared, “For Huawei, we will lend our support to all such self-saving, self-strengthening, and self-reliance efforts of the Chinese semiconductor industry.
A major flashpoint in the larger U.S.-China competition for technological dominance has been semiconductors. Washington has made an effort over the past few years to isolate China and Chinese companies through export controls and sanctions.
2019 saw the inclusion of Huawei on the Entity List, a U.S. blacklist that forbade American companies from selling technology to the Chinese company. The term “5G” refers to the incredibly quick next-generation mobile networks, and this included chips for 5G products.
In 2020, chip restrictions against Huawei were tightened, effectively cutting it off from the most advanced chips that it needed for its smartphones.
The conflict between the US and China over technological dominance has involved semiconductors. Through export controls and sanctions over the past few years, the United States has tried to isolate China and Chinese companies.
Pakistan’s market for mobile phone network operators is expanding. In Pakistan in March 2019, there were 152 million mobile “phone subscribers,” according to data from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).