Official website seconds empty, Pura 70 series on sale! Huawei’s key strategy exposure in 2024 …
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Huawei Pura 70 is really here!
At 10: 08 am on April 18th, Huawei officially announced that the Huawei Pura 70 series was officially launched.
According to the Securities Times, the reporter saw on the website of Huawei Mall at 10: 08 today that Pura 70 Ultra and Pura 70 Pro were sold out in less than one minute.
Huawei Pura 70 series goes on sale
There are long queues at stores.
According to the announcement, the pioneer plan will be divided into two batches, among which the first batch of Huawei Pura 70 Ultra and Pura 70 Pro will be officially launched at 10: 08 today.
The second batch of Huawei Pura 70 Pro+ and Huawei Pura 70 will be on sale on April 22nd.
The price of Huawei Pura 70 series is as follows:
Huawei Pura 70
12gb+256gb: 5499 yuan.
12gb+512gb: 5999 yuan.
12 GB+1 TB: 6999 yuan
Huawei Pura 70 Pro
12gb+256gb: 6499 yuan.
12gb+512gb: 6999 yuan.
12 GB+1 TB: 7999 yuan
Huawei Pura 70 Pro+
16GB+512GB: 7999 yuan
16GB+1TB: 8999 yuan
Huawei Pura 70 Ultra
16GB+512GB: 9999 yuan
16GB+1TB: 10999 yuan
According to the Securities Times, at around 9: 40 am on the 18th, the reporter saw in the flagship store of Huawei in a business district in Shenzhen that there was a long queue in front of the store.
Image source: Securities Times
Image source: Securities Times
In addition, according to Zhongxin Jingwei, on the morning of 18th, many consumers queued up at Huawei’s flagship store in Wangfujing, Beijing.
Image source: Zhongxin Jingwei
According to Counterpoint Research data, Huawei returned to the top position in smartphone sales in the first two weeks of 2024. In the first six weeks of 2024, the overall smartphone sales in China decreased by 7% year-on-year, while Huawei’s mobile phones increased by 64% year-on-year, ranking second with a market share of 17%. The report mentioned that Huawei Mate 60 series continued to attract and meet strong market demand and became one of the few bright spots at the beginning of this year. In addition, the data also shows that Huawei’s folding screen market ranked first in the fourth quarter of last year, with a market share of 51.2%.
In 2023, with the help of the hot sale of Mate60 series, Huawei’s terminal business ended the previous two consecutive years of revenue decline and achieved revenue growth. This change not only brought positive effects to Huawei itself, but also injected new vitality into the entire mobile phone industry.
On March 29th, Huawei officially released its 2023 annual report.The company achieved an annual operating income of 704.2 billion yuan and a net profit of 87 billion yuan.According to the report, in 2023, Huawei’s R&D investment reached 164.7 billion yuan, accounting for 23.4% of the annual income, and the accumulated R&D expenditure in ten years exceeded 1,110 billion yuan.
Hu Houkun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, said, "In 2023, the overall operation of the Group was in line with expectations. In the past few years, Huawei has experienced many tests and is constantly growing in challenges. It is the trust and support of customers, partners and all walks of life that has helped Huawei survive and develop. "
According to the analysis of Shanghai Securities Research Report, benefiting from the strong return of Huawei Mate60 series, Huawei’s terminal business including mobile phones achieved a substantial increase in revenue in 2023, with sales revenue of 251.5 billion yuan, up 17.3% year-on-year, becoming the growth engine of Huawei’s performance.With the release of HarmonyOS Xinghe Edition in the second half of the year, Pura70 series is expected to be the first terminal to experience native applications in HarmonyOS.
Xu Zhijun’s latest voice:
Spoiler Huawei’s key strategy in 2024
In addition, it is worth noting that on April 17, the Huawei Analyst Conference opened in Shenzhen, and more than 500 analysts and think tanks around the world discussed topics such as frontier trends in the intelligent age and industrial development direction.
On April 1st, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman and vice chairman of Huawei, delivered a keynote speech at the conference to introduce Huawei’s key strategy in 2024, focusing on the key measures to "seize the strategic opportunity of intelligence and promote comprehensive intelligence".
Xu Zhijun said that on the one hand, the comprehensive intelligent strategy refers to providing sustainable computing power for the development of key technologies of artificial intelligence, especially large model training and reasoning, and building a win-win ecology; On the other hand, AI is used to enhance the competitiveness of Huawei’s products and solutions, including: using Ascension Cloud Services and Pangu Big Model to enable industry intelligence, creating an autonomous driving network to revolutionize the operation and maintenance mode of communication networks, creating an autonomous driving solution, and finally realizing unmanned driving, and creating a super smart assistant gadget based on Pangu Big Model.
"At the same time, introducing AI into Huawei’s internal management continues to improve operational efficiency, investing in AI basic research to promote continuous innovation of artificial intelligence, actively participating in global AI governance, and doing AI governance well in product design and before product release are also essential key measures for strategic landing." Xu Zhijun said.
Xu Zhijun introduced that since the release of Huawei’s AI strategy and full-stack full-scenario AI solution in October 2018, Huawei has been firmly implementing the strategy and building AI solutions, and continuously promoting comprehensive intelligence.
Zhou Hong, Dean of Huawei Strategic Research Institute, shared his thoughts and prospects for the intelligent age at the meeting.
He said that in the next 20 years, human society will accelerate towards the era of comprehensive intelligence.
"Information perception, communication, calculation and control will be the cornerstones, driving mankind into a new life, a new job, a new environment and a new digital world, and general artificial intelligence will be the key to open the door." Hong Zhou said that Huawei suggested developing multiple intelligences of AI, developing open intelligent systems based on autonomous agents, building new computing modes, new architectures and new components, and improving the accuracy, adaptability, creativity and efficiency of general artificial intelligence from the perspective of system engineering.
Hong Zhou believes that facing the future scientific hypothesis and business vision, we need to lead new breakthroughs through science and technology more than ever before.
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