On May 23, Leifeng.com reported that according to several media reports, Dr. Wang Chenglu, the head of Huawei Hongmeng and the president of Huawei’s Terminal BG Software Department, has left Huawei, his personal Weibo ID has been changed, and the official Huawei certification has been cancelled.
Many bloggers in the technology industry on social media said that Wang Chenglu has joined Shenzhen Kaihong Company (Shenzhen Kaihong Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd.).
In addition, some netizens confirmed that Wang Chenglu’s name could not be found on WeLink, Huawei’s cloud intelligent work platform.
Weibo blogger Hongmeng Zhao said that there are many questions about Dr. Wang Chenglu’s departure from Huawei. Out of respect for Wang Bo, I cannot disclose too many details. Just a few words that can be said: 1. Wang Bo has proven his excellent market and technical capabilities, and his position in the field of Hongmeng cannot be replaced. 2. Wang Bo’s next stop is still Hongmeng, but a different organization may be more suitable for him to play. 3. Wang Bo’s new direction has been recognized by Huawei executives.
However, in response to the rumors of the departure, Huawei has not officially confirmed the news of his departure, and the specific reasons for his departure are not clear.
In fact, there may have been signs of Wang Chenglu’s departure.
At the Huawei 2021 Developer Conference in October last year, Gong Ti made his first public appearance as the president of Huawei’s consumer business software department. Wang Chenglu’s position became the president of Huawei’s consumer business AI and smart full-scenario business department.
However, it is understood that Wang Chenglu, who is about to join Shen Kaihong, is still a Huawei company. Chen Yuhong, the founder of Shenzhen Kaihong, is also the founder of Chinasoft International and is currently the CEO of Chinasoft International.
The staff of Shenzhen Kaihong Company are mainly injected by the former Chinasoft International Hongmeng Ecological Business Department. The core team has experience in leading companies such as Huawei and Ali.
After Chinasoft International, Shenzhen State-owned Assets and Huawei jointly established Shenzhen Kaihong, it took over Huawei’s Hongmeng business in the form of a domestic company.
In the equity penetration chart of Shenzhen Kaihong, you can also see the figure of Hubble Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei.
According to Tianyancha, Shenzhen Kaihong’s shareholders include Shenzhen Harbo Technology Investment Partnership, an investment fund owned by Huawei, with a 20% stake. The other shareholder is Shenzhen Jianxin Chinasoft International Investment Partnership, and the equity penetration is also Chinasoft International.
In 2015, Chinasoft International introduced Huawei as a strategic shareholder, and Huawei is also Chinasoft International’s largest customer.
According to the data, Wang Chenglu is a veteran of Huawei’s technology. He has led the development of Hongmeng system for 22 years at Huawei.
He joined Huawei in 1998 and served as president of Huawei’s Central Software Institute. During his work at the Central Software Institute, Wang Chenglu was responsible for the development of Huawei’s software infrastructure 1.0, including operating systems, databases, and programming frameworks. The purpose of the development was to enable Huawei to provide customers with a complete set of software solutions.
In 2015, Wang Chenglu was officially transferred to Huawei’s consumer business, serving as the president of the consumer BG software department, and leading the development of the Ark compiler and EMUI system.
According to Shenwang, on the first working day after the National Day holiday in 2015, Wang Chenglu officially joined Huawei’s consumer business at the invitation of Yu Chengdong.
Wang Chenglu once said that during his time at the Central Software Institute, he already had the idea of doing Hongmeng. The word “Hongmeng” comes from the “Book of Mountains and Seas”, which was originally the name of a technical project established by the core team of the laboratory in 2012.
Since then, after Wang Chenglu entered the consumer business, he has been promoting Huawei’s own system and ecology.
At the end of 2016, Wang Chenglu shared Hongmeng for the first time at the consumer business retreat, but the internal debut of Hongmeng at that time did not cause much disturbance.
In May 2017, Hongmeng Kernel 1.0 completed technical verification. At this time, Huawei’s internal view of Hongmeng is still flat, “Everyone thinks that this is a usable technology, and this technology will be better when used in our products, that’s all.”
The turnaround came not long after, Wang Chenglu showed the prototype of the system for the first time at a retreat in OCT, and Huawei began to feel the value of Hongmeng inside.
In March 2018, shortly after Wang Chenglu reported to Ren Zhengfei in Beijing, Hongmeng officially approved the project of Huawei’s consumer business.
In recent years, a considerable number of core technology executives have left Huawei.
On January 26 this year, Su Qing, the former president of Huawei’s intelligent driving, was reported to be resigning. Huawei said that Su Qing had indeed left Huawei’s car BU, and thanked Su Qing for his contribution to the car BU.
Then on April 29, Cai Jianyong, general manager of Huawei’s smart car solution BU smart car control field, also announced his resignation from Huawei and joined the battery company CATL as the head of CATL’s CTC battery-chassis integration business.
In addition to Wang Chenglu, Su Jing, and Cai Jianyong , Huawei will also lose many senior and core technical personnel in 2021.
for example:
He Liyang, former vice president of Huawei’s automotive business and director of the Western European Enterprise Business Department, joined Xpeng Motors;
Chen Qi, the former founder of Huawei’s autonomous driving team and head of the autonomous driving R&D department, has joined Jikr Auto as the vice president of autonomous driving;
She Xiaoli, the former chief functional safety expert of Huawei Auto BU, joined NIO as an internal expert in algorithm research;
Zhang Xiaohong, the former project group director of Huawei’s Intelligent Driving Product Department, joined NIO as a senior product manager.
In addition, Jiang Jun, the former chief operating officer of Huawei’s autonomous driving, and Peng Xueming, the former head of Huawei’s fusion sensing, have resigned, and their whereabouts are unknown.
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