Huawei just unveiled a new microchip that will help shape the future of the smartphone industry—but one of the most interesting moments from the launch had nothing to do with benchmarks or specifications.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG, delivered his keynote in Chinese.
Then, for one sentence, he deliberately switched to English:
“Kirin 9050 Pro. Super fast, super Live smart, super cool! The most powerful Kirin chip ever!”
That language switch was not an accident.
Huawei had just introduced the HUAWEI Mate XT 2, the world’s first smartphone powered by the new Kirin 9050 Pro. But Richard Yu wasn’t speaking only to the audience in the room—or even just to consumers in China.
By switching to English, he was making a statement directly to the global technology community.
The message was clear: this is not simply another update for the Chinese market. Huawei wants the entire world to pay attention to what it is building.
That message resonates with me personally.
This summer, I traveled across China, visiting more than 12 cities, attending one of the world’s most important semiconductor events in Shanghai, and witnessing firsthand how Huawei technology is transforming communities—from rural villages to major cities.
It gave me a front-row seat to the remarkable pace of technological development taking place across China.
Huawei’s latest breakthrough is amazing to see—and an exciting development for the entire global technology industry.
#Huawei #Kirin
A heartwarming moment at a subway station in Hefei, #China. ❤️
A young child waited for his family while sitting on the station floor doing homework. Seeing this, police officer Liu Jie brought over a small stool and set up a “temporary study corner” for him.
This is an interesting difference between China and Europe, restaurant-wise.
Nowadays, only the most upscale restaurants in Europe (Michelin-starred or the like) tend to offer a farm-to-table experience with their own personal veggie/fruit garden. And even then, it's really rare. To have this type of experience, you often need to spend at least 100 euros per head.
When you travel in rural China, these types of restaurant are standard: you literally have tens of thousands of them, they're very affordable and we eat in them all the time, like tonight in Xinjiang 👇
For our 5 dishes we pay 280 RMB, the equivalent of $40 - so $10 per head - and it's the freshest products imaginable, straight from the garden.
Funny to think about this: the "farm-to-table" concept we now market in Europe as the height of refinement is simply a normal Wednesday night dinner in rural China.