Four Xi 'an Research Institutes (why did Huawei set up four in East China)

Often asked by friends, how many research institutes does Huawei have in East China? What does the institute do? Come and tidy up when you are free during the holiday.

Huawei has four research institutes in East China, only in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, namely Shanghai Research Institute, Nanjing Research Institute, Hangzhou Research Institute and Suzhou Research Institute.

Why did you set up four research institutes in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai at once? There are mainly the following considerations.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai universities have concentrated scientific research institutes and talented people. There are only seven 985, which is the largest outside Beijing.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are gathering places for overseas returned talents;

Compared with Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, it has developed economy and industrial agglomeration.

Last summer vacation, Ren intensively visited colleges and universities, and visited four 985 colleges and universities in Shanghai and Nanjing for the first time, and issued the famous "Someone closes the lighthouse, how can we set sail", which shows that Huawei attaches importance to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Next, let's take a look at the * * * nature of these four research institutes.

The four research institutes are all Huawei's own land, self-built parks and self-sustaining properties;

The parks of the four research institutes are all beautiful, and they are all planned and built according to the standard of not less than three-star scenic spots;

The R&D personnel capacity of the four research institutes is 1 10,000 or more;

There are artificial lakes and black swans in the parks of the four schools. The existence of black swan shows the ecological harmony here; Second, remind Huawei people that the "black swan" doesn't know when it will come, so we must always have a sense of crisis!

Ren, who broke out in adversity, has always had a strong sense of hardship. When the Internet bubble burst in 2000, his article "Winter in Huawei" was widely circulated in the IT field, and it is still a "textbook" for Huawei.

Back to the topic, let's talk about these four research institutes in detail.

1. Shanghai research institute 1996, Huawei began to develop a 2G(GSM) wireless communication system. Because of the shortage of manpower, they aimed at the outstanding talents of Fudan University and Jiaotong University. So we rented four offices in a commercial building on Xietu Road, which was the original Huawei Shanghai Research Institute. 1997 10 in June, China people made a successful call on their own second-generation mobile communication system (GSM).

Later, Shanghai Research Institute moved to Jinmao Building in Lujiazui, which was just completed, but the other two pieces of Lujiazui's "three-piece kitchen" have not yet been completed. Jinmao Tower is the tallest building in Shanghai and China, and Huawei has contracted nearly ten floors to work here. Later, it expanded rapidly and rented office space in the securities building and information building next to it. Later, he moved to Lujiazui Software Park and Jinqiao Software Park, and moved to the current Shanghai R&D base of Xinjinqiao Road before the Shanghai World Expo.

Perhaps Huawei people have a "Jin Mao" complex. The designer of Shanghai Research Park of Xinjinqiao Road is actually the same SOM architectural design firm as Jinmao Building. The 880-meter-long single-family office building is equivalent to two Shanghai Jinmao towers, which is very imposing. The construction area is 360,000 square meters, which is close to the construction area of Shanghai World Financial Center.

Although Huawei's Shang Yan Jinqiao Park is already very big, Huawei's business is developing too fast. A few years after I moved in, I was overcrowded and had to rent an office outside. Therefore, a new and bigger R&D center is under construction in Qingpu.

Since the establishment of Huawei Shanghai Research Institute 25 years ago, we can see the rapid development of Huawei, and we can see that Huawei has been catching up and surpassing from 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.

Today, Huawei Shanghai Research Institute has many business departments, mainly including the following departments.

Wireless communication. Wireless communication includes wireless access network, core network, enterprise network, etc. Now it is mainly the development and pre-research of 5G/5.5G/6G. Before 4G, it went to Xi 'an Institute.

Smart cars. The research and development of Huawei smart cars is mainly in research. It started with the research of car networking nine years ago, and then made a 4G/5G car communication module. Later, it met the "new four modernizations" of cars (electrification, intelligence, networking and enjoyment) and broke out. The institute mainly focuses on intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit and intelligent Che Yun.

Hess. Huawei Hisilicon mainly designs and develops chips related to wireless communication, intelligent terminals and Internet of Things in Shanghai. A large number of self-developed wireless communication and intelligent terminal chips are developed here. In addition, the Internet of Things chips are also sold out.

Intelligent terminal. The main development teams of Huawei's high-end flagship mobile phones Mate series and P series are all under study.

Digital energy. Mainly site energy and vehicle energy.

20 12 laboratory. Huawei has a mysterious 20 12 laboratory. In recent years, many of Huawei's black technologies have come from the 20 12 laboratory, and the main body of the 20 12 laboratory is under study.

Second, Nanjing Research Institute Huawei Nanjing Research Institute was established in 1999. At first, it rented several floors in the Golden Eagle Building in Xinjiekou. Later, it moved to Yuhuatai Software Avenue. Now Nanjing Research Institute Park, with a construction area of nearly 6.5438+0.5 million square meters, took six years to build, integrating natural, humanistic, modern and scientific elements.

Nanjing Research Institute is mainly engaged in software development related to operators' business, such as operation support (CRBT, customer service, etc. ), intelligent network, IPTV, broadband TV, etc. Later, the data communication of enterprise network was added, such as IP unified communication between routers and switches. Later, there was cloud computing and some Hisilicon chip development. In a word, Huawei Nanjing Research Institute mainly focuses on software development and algorithms.

3. Hangzhou Research Institute The establishment of Huawei Hangzhou Research Institute dates back to 2003. After the "century lawsuit" between Cisco and Huawei began, in response to the lawsuit, Huawei and American 3Com jointly established Huawei 3Com Company in Hangzhou, with Huawei and 3Com holding 5 1% and 49% respectively. Huawei put the low-end switches in the digital product line of Beijing Research Institute in the joint venture company in Hangzhou.

In this way, around 2005, Hangzhou Research Institute was established, initially on a small scale, mainly engaged in the research and development of data communication products. Later, Huawei transferred 5 1% shares to 3Com twice, and the company changed its name to "H3C", and Huawei realized about 900 million US dollars. Later, 3Com failed to survive the financial crisis in 2008, and Huawei wanted to buy back all H3C, which was rejected by the US. Then, H3C was acquired by HP and renamed as "Huasan". Later, Ziguang praised Hua San and changed it to "Xinhua San".

After losing H3C, Huawei continued to manufacture its own data communication products in Hangzhou Research Institute. Later, Hangyan Institute added video surveillance products, because Haikang and Dahua, the two leading enterprises in the field of video surveillance, are both in Hangzhou. Video surveillance has now become a product line of machine vision, and machine vision and artificial intelligence have become the main products of the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

In recent years, Huawei Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has another fist product, that is, cloud computing. Many backbones of Shang Yan Institute have gone to Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to engage in cloud computing.

So, to sum up, Aeronautical Research Institute mainly has three businesses: data communication, machine vision and artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

In addition, Huawei also has a global training center in Hangzhou, which is an important window for Huawei to face customers and provides ICT training services for high-end talents in 170+ countries around the world. Huawei Global Training Center has seven product line laboratories, covering cutting-edge new technologies such as Huawei 5G, big data, cloud, Internet of Things and AI.

Iv. Suzhou Research Institute Huawei Suzhou Research Institute was established late, only 20 12 years ago, and the new park was fully delivered at the end of 2020, located in the beautiful Sangtian Island of Suzhou Industrial Park. Suzhou Research Institute Park, with a total area of 647 mu and a total construction area of about 760,000 square meters, is still quite large.

Because the institute is young, there are not many stories, but there is a lot of imagination in the future.

At the beginning of this year, on June 4th, 65438, Suzhou and Huawei signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, Huawei set up Huawei's "four headquarters" in Sangtian Island Campus, including Huawei's government and enterprise headquarters in China, Huawei's cloud computing headquarters in China, Huawei's EBG global OpenLab headquarters, and Huawei's WLAN global R&D headquarters. The landing of the "four headquarters" will promote the development of Huawei's government and enterprise business and the innovation of technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and WLAN.

At the same time, Huawei will land in the "six centers" in Suzhou Research Institute, including industrial Internet empowerment center, artificial intelligence innovation center, intelligent networked automobile testing center, digital industrial chain collaboration center, digital governance and service demonstration center, and ICT talent training center. These six centers are the core industries of Huawei.

At this point, we can see that Huawei's four research institutes in East China have their own characteristics and products have their own emphasis. Among them, Shanghai Research Institute has the largest scale and the most products. In the future, Qingpu R&D Center will be the largest in the world after its completion.