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Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei

Founder and chief executive of Huawei Technologies

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Notable Quotes

"We have already been preparing for this." — Press conference, May 2019, days after the US Entity List designation

"The consumer business faces a painful long march." — Internal memo, 2019

Stories

Huawei rebuilds global smartphone ambitions on homegrown chips despite US export controls

New Capabilities

Leading Huawei through sanctions and global re-expansion

In May 2019, the United States placed Huawei on an export blacklist, cutting the world's largest telecom equipment maker off from American chips, software, and chipmaking tools. Seven years later, Huawei launched its Mate 80 Pro smartphone globally from a stage in Madrid, powered entirely by a processor designed in-house and manufactured by China's largest chipmaker using equipment the US tried to deny it. The phone runs on HarmonyOS, an operating system Huawei built from scratch after losing access to Google's Android services.

Updated Feb 26