SHANGHAI (National Times) – Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (HWT.UL) estimated on Friday its 2022 revenue remained flat, suggesting that its sales decline due to U.S. sanctions had come to a halt.<\/p>\n
Despite sales increasing a mere 0.02%, rotating Chairman Eric Xu struck an upbeat tone in the company\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s letter, where he revealed the figure.<\/p>\n
\u201cU.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and we\u2019re back to business as usual,\u201d Xu wrote in the letter that was addressed to staff and released to the media.<\/p>\n
Revenue for the year is expected to be 636.9 billion Yuan ($$91.53 billion), according to Xu.<\/p>\n
That represents a tiny increase from 2021, when revenue hit 636.8 billion Yuan, and marked a 30% year-on-year sales tumble as the U.S. sanctions on the company took effect.<\/p>\n
Xu\u2019s letter did not mention Huawei\u2019s profitability. The company typically discloses its full annual results in the following year\u2019s first quarter.<\/p>\n
Revenue for 2022 still remained well below the company\u2019s record of $122 billion in 2019. At the time the company was at its peak as the top Android smartphone vendor globally.<\/p>\n
In 2019, the U.S. Trump administration imposed a trade ban on Huawei, citing national security concerns, which barred the company from using Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Android for its new smartphones, among other critical U.S.-origin technologies.<\/p>\n
The sanctions caused its handset device sales to plummet. It also lost access to critical components that barred it from designing its line of processors for smartphones under its HI Silicon chip division.<\/p>\n
The company continues to generate revenue via its networking equipment division, which competes with Nokia (NOKIA.HE) and Ericsson (ERICb.ST). It also operates a cloud computing division.<\/p>\n
The company began investing in the electric vehicle (EV) sector as well as green technologies around the time sanctions took effect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe macro environment may be rife with uncertainty, but what we can be certain about is that digitization and decarburization are the way forward, and they\u2019re where future opportunities lie,\u201d said Xu in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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