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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, the world's largest telecom equipment maker, on an export blacklist, cutting the company off from American chips, software, and chipmaking tools. Seven years later, Huawei launched its Mate 80 Pro smartphone globally from Madrid, powered entirely by a processor designed in-house and made by China's largest chipmaker using equipment the US tried to deny.

Updated May 29