In order to develop 6G, did the European Union actually support Huawei with 30 million yuan?

Tech 2023-06-20 05:19:27 Source: Network

A recent news has exploded the entire European internet.That's right, it's the EU funding Huawei with 30 million yuan for research and development mentioned in the title

A recent news has exploded the entire European internet.

That's right, it's the EU funding Huawei with 30 million yuan for research and development mentioned in the title.

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As is well known, in order to curb Huawei's leadership position in the communication field, the United States and the European Union have introduced a series of policies to sanction Huawei, urging governments in Europe and even around the world to remove Huawei from their 5G equipment procurement list.

So this time, the EU provided 30 million yuan for Huawei to research and develop 6G technology, which is really a backstabbing of the United States in front of the world.

So why would the EU choose to subsidize Huawei instead of giving all this money to local communication companies Nokia and Ericsson?

Today, Lao Hu will talk to everyone about the reasons behind this, as well as the opportunities and challenges of 6G.

Why Huawei?

Firstly, let's review the context of this matter.

Due to the sluggish development of technology in Europe in recent years, the most popular language models (such as GPT-4) in the field are actually only China and the United States.

The same applies to the field of autonomous driving. Currently, the pure visual route led by Tesla in the United States and the laser radar route led by Huawei and Xiaopeng in China are in the first tier globally. Traditional European car companies are very reluctant to even transition to electrification, let alone autonomous driving technology.

So the European Union slapped its head and thought that if it continued like this, it would soon fall into the next technological era of Africa. We need to quickly find a way to improve the EU's technological level.

So the European Union's Research and Innovation Framework Program called "Horizon Europe" emerged, and in order to make the program look attractive, the EU also invested a huge budget of over 95 billion euros, equivalent to approximately 730 billion yuan.

Among them, Huawei, as one of the global technology giants, received a subsidy of 3.89 million euros, equivalent to nearly 30 million yuan in Chinese yuan.

It has to be said that although Huawei has repeatedly been questioned and accused by the United States without evidence, the European Union is still clear at critical moments. The EU did not reject Huawei, but claimed that it was only allowed to join after independent evaluation by different expert groups.

Of course, the EU's willingness to allocate so much money to support Huawei's research and development cannot be solely due to Huawei's past achievements, but rather because Huawei does indeed have an irreplaceable leading advantage in the 6G field.

Next, Lao Hu will use a small case to introduce Huawei's advantages in 6G.

At the first 6G seminar in China, Dr. Tong Wen, Huawei Wireless CTO, introduced Huawei's definition of 6G: 6G is no longer just a platform for connecting everything, but an intelligent platform that integrates synesthesia and computing.

For the general public, this passage may sound a bit difficult to understand.

Translation: In the past, 3G, 4G, and 5G were only channels for transmitting information between people, people, and things, while 6G gave the network the ability to collect information on its own and become a source of information.

For example, the terahertz frequency band that 6G will enable, which is between millimeter wave and infrared light, has a huge communication bandwidth, but it is not just a frequency band that can transmit information.

The high-frequency point wavelength in the terahertz frequency band can reach millimeter or even millimeter wave level, so it can penetrate many obstacles and scan and image objects that cannot be seen by the human eye.

The terahertz prototype developed by Huawei is shown in the picture. Although there is a wooden box blocking the target object, it can still accurately scan and perform millimeter level precision imaging.

So when we use 6G devices in the future, in addition to enjoying faster network transmission speed, we can also scan target objects anytime and anywhere through obstacles.

In the future, when eating out, hold up your phone and scan it. You don't need to move your chopsticks to know if there is anything dirty in the bowl~

Opportunities and Challenges of 6G

Lao Hu often sees many people saying that 5G has not significantly improved compared to 4G, except for faster network speed, and the significance of developing 5G is not significant.

But Old Fox has the opposite opinion.

Although for most people, the most intuitive feeling of 5G is that the download speed has increased, in fact, various features of 5G are subtly taking effect.

For example, the success of live streaming e-commerce is closely related to the large bandwidth and low latency of 5G networks.

Any industry that wants to develop requires sufficient scale, and live streaming e-commerce is no exception.

According to previous data, as of 2022, the user base of live streaming e-commerce in China was around 470 million. Even if only half of these users use mobile traffic to watch live streaming, how can we ensure that these users do not get stuck watching live streaming or rush to buy products due to high latency?

Only 5G can achieve this, otherwise the carrying capacity of 4G base stations, bandwidth and latency of 4G networks will make it difficult for live streaming e-commerce users to have a good shopping experience.

This is the best proof of the argument that more advanced communication networks can give birth to new economic forms.

So what about 6G?

In addition to what we mentioned above, the technology of using 6G devices to capture other objects through obstacles can be applied in fields such as traffic law enforcement and food safety detection.

What other applications can the characteristics of 6G networks have?

Lao Hu believes that it is a combination of VR virtual reality and AR augmented reality, known as XR technology.

Not long ago, Apple released its first XR device, AppleVisionPro, which can be said to have once again stirred up the technology industry, which has long been lacking in hot topics.

In Apple's product demonstration video, the productivity use of AppleVisionPro was emphasized, stating that it was Apple's first spatial computing computer.

It is also evident from this that Apple does not view the XR device as a gaming console like the Xbox, just like Zuckerberg. Apple hopes it can become the next generation of personal computers.

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I believe that in the near future, once Apple can significantly extend the battery life of the AppleVisionPro through some means and make the device as lightweight as possible, it will inevitably become a new core device for everyone's daily work.

Compared to the current mainstream devices, XR devices have one more dimension and inevitably require larger network bandwidth to transmit data. The perception enhancement ability of 6G networks can also help reduce the requirements for hardware configuration and assist the camera in scanning the surrounding environment and objects.

Moreover, the commercialization of 6G networks will also bring AI technology to new heights once again.

Although the current AI models represented by GPT-4 and Claude have shown intergenerational improvements compared to previous AI levels, AI iteration and evolution still rely on manual feeding of data.

So, to say that human abilities limit the development of AI seems to be no problem at this level.

But with the comprehensive deployment of the 6G network, it is equivalent to having a self sensing device that can scan the entire society in real-time. When the scanned data is uploaded to the cloud server, it is then transmitted to the AI training server in real time.

At that time, AI can truly participate in human society without manual guidance, explore areas that are inaccessible to humans, and improve the development level of human society.

However, in order to achieve all of this, it is necessary to solve the network deployment problem that is more difficult than 5G networks, which is also the biggest challenge in the popularization process of 6G networks.

Due to the need for larger data transmission bandwidth, wider signal frequency bands, and support for more types of terminal devices in 6G networks, it means that there are higher requirements for the network deployment level and financial investment of operators.

After all, even achieving Tbit/s level wireless network transmission speed requires upgrading all existing network devices, and the difficulties and obstacles encountered can be imagined.

Therefore, Lao Hu believes that Huawei's ability to receive 30 million yuan of EU funding through its strong technological strength is indeed a very gratifying thing. We also believe that Huawei can continue its leadership position in the 5G field and remain an industry leader in the 6G field in the future.

The popularization of 6G networks will once again give birth to a new economic form, making XR devices truly the next generation of personal core computers, driving the AI field to new heights once again. Perhaps MOSS will truly be born after the popularization of 6G networks.

However, it is not realistic to see the commercialization of 6G networks in the short term. To fully leverage the advantages of 6G networks, it will take a longer time.

References:

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