Huawei upbeat on AI strategy for India; no word on 5G roll-out plans yet - Express Computer

Global telecom giant Huawei will continue to go ahead with its India strategy related to artificial intelligence technology as planned, unfazed by the pressure tactics by America through ban and escalating US-China trade war. However, it maintained silence on 5G roll-out plans in the country. We are going to develop Atlas card and servers based on the standard processors, and we are also going to work on MDC (mobile data centre) based on standard processes as well," Huawei Rotating Chairman Eric Xu said. Xu was responding to a question on what will be the company's India strategy following the looming uncertainty over 5G roll-out, at the launch of its AI processor Ascend 910 and AI computing framework MindSpore in Shenzhen recently. The Chinese telecom equipment maker has caught itself in a bitter battle with the US, which has provided a 90-day reprieve to continue doing business as usual with the US suppliers. The US imposed the ban on the company over concerns of security. Washington has also been putting pressure on other countries to restrict operations of the Chinese telecom firm. Restricting the replies around the company's AI plans, Xu said, "Our AI strategy is not necessarily tied to 5G.