Professor Shenyang's words quickly caused widespread heated discussion.
As we all know, in recent years, China's science and technology field has been restricted by the United States and other western countries. Relevant data show that in 20 19 years, China's chip self-sufficiency rate is only about 30%. Because domestic semiconductor equipment manufacturers do not have the ability to produce high-end mask aligner at present, so far, high-end chips have to rely on foreign imports. After entering 2020, under the ban of the United States, foreign semiconductor equipment manufacturers stepped up restrictions on the export of semiconductor equipment in China, which undoubtedly further aggravated the situation that China's chip industry was monopolized by foreign countries.
But many people may not imagine that, more tragically than the chip industry, in the field of operating systems, 99% of the market in China is monopolized by American enterprises. In the field of computer operating system, it is almost monopolized by the windows system developed by Microsoft. In the field of mobile phone operating systems, Google Android and Apple IOS, two well-known operating systems, have also monopolized 99% of the market in China.
These two operating systems are also from American companies. Ai Media Consulting data shows that in 20 19, the market share of Apple's iOS system reached 30.99%, and that of Google's Android system reached 68.63%.
When the operating system is monopolized, we have to face a real problem. Even though the global sales of China mobile phone manufacturers can occupy the top five market share, after the operating system is monopolized, every time a mobile phone is sold, it needs to pay a part of the patent fee to American companies, which is equivalent to domestic mobile phone manufacturers working for American companies.
Now the chip is stuck in the neck. If we don't make a major breakthrough in the field of operating system, the consequences will be more serious if the US imperialists "fiddle" with the operating system. Because of the Internet of Things era, information security has become particularly important. As the foundation of all software and hardware, the operating system must be firmly in its own hands.
In order to break the monopoly situation, as early as a few years ago, Ali and ZTE have independently developed domestic operating systems, but they have never been commercialized on a large scale.
The reason is that developing an operating system is a very huge and complicated project, including not only the research and development of the system, but also the support of major software developers and hardware manufacturers. The operating system must adapt to a large number of application software and hardware manufacturers in order to establish a sound ecology. Despite the difficulties in developing independent operating systems, domestic technology giants have never given up their exploration in this field.
In order to break this monopoly, Huawei invested in the research and development of operating system as early as eight years ago, and established the "HarmonyOS System Ecology Class". Ren once said that technology should be in his own hands, but no one will understand how difficult it is for Huawei to break the current operating system architecture, because it is a breakthrough from zero to one.
After the research and development of HarmonyOS system was completed, Huawei didn't launch HarmonyOS system at the first time, but it didn't officially launch it until the ecosystem of HarmonyOS was further improved.
Professor yang shen thinks that Huawei's HarmonyOS system is expected to break the monopoly of the United States, mainly because of the advantages of HarmonyOS system. First of all, HarmonyOS system starts from the Internet of Everything, covering mobile phones, cars, wearable devices, televisions and other hardware devices. Secondly, HarmonyOS system has a wide memory range and is completely open source, which can achieve deep integration with AI, big data, Internet and traditional manufacturing. In terms of intelligent interaction, it has advantages over Android and IOS.
It can be said that Huawei's HarmonyOS system not only solves Huawei's worries, but also provides a way out for domestic technology enterprises to avoid being "stuck" by foreign companies.