Huawei is said to be embracing artificial intelligence technologies beyond just smartphones and move it to a wide variety of product categories under the Project Da Vinci, which is an internal initiative. The project is said to be ranging from consumer electronics to telecom equipment. Though the primary focus will be the consumer electronics.
Furthermore, in terms of other applications, the company is reportedly planning to pose a challenge to NVIDIA’s data center chips with hardware of its own, while having its subsidiary HiSilicon developing new AI modules. With the company facing a tough time in the USA, thegovernment is unlikely to accept such hardware anytime soon, so it is evident that the company would not be targeting the stateside anytime soon.
Instead, it will challenge NVIDIA in its home country since China currently accounts for nearly a quarter of the chipmaker’s revenue. The project also includes Huawei’s surveillance services and is directly related to camera feed analysis solutions the company is presently offering in some 90 countries across four continents. This initiative would play a large part in the company’s wireless plans, inline with the fifth generation mobile networks.
This also decreases its dependence on Qualcomm who it sees as its primary rival in terms of semi conductor business. Either way, we don’t really have what Huawei is planning internally under the Project D and any time frame for the introduction of products under the new endeavour that Huawei is working on.