Chinese technology group Huawei is spending $1.5 billion to recruit software developers for its computing platforms and offering to share 5G technology, as it seeks new partners in the face of US sanctions that cut it off from suppliers including Google, said the Financial Times.
Huawei’s search for more developers is made urgent by the fact that its new series of smartphones, to be launched later this week, will not have licensed access to Google’s apps. As part of its outreach Huawei has also offered to sell its 5G technology to foreign companies — a move that rotating chief executive Ken Hu on Wednesday said was meant to “lessen people’s security concerns”.
Washington has put Huawei on a blacklist that has largely blocked US suppliers from selling to the company, and has lobbied US allies to cut the company out of their 5G mobile networks.