BEIJING, September 29 (TMTPost)— Huawei Technologies’ founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei expressed confidence in the in-house operating system HarmonyOS and expected upbeat performance despite ongoing U.S. sanctions.

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More than 30 operating systems in China are built on open-sourced HarmonyOS so far, covering industrial devices, mobile phones, tablets, and home devices, and HarmonyOS boasts approximately 600 million users, thus becoming the third popular operating system in the world, Ren told Liu Yadong, Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Nankai University and former editor-in-chief of the state-backed newspaper Science and Technology Daily, in an interview in July, according to an transcript released recently.

The outside will follow suit as Huawei just upgraded Harmony to 4.0 version, Ren said. He noted Huawei is not the only one that builds Harmony’s open source community because what the company is doing is the foundation and the core, which acts as "black soil" and its partners will accordingly plant and grow "corn", "soybeans" and "sorghum" on it. Ren vowed that Huawei will continue to invest tens of thousands of manpower and billions of dollar each year in developing HarmonyOS and EulerOS, even though the codes for the two operating systems are open-sourced.

Huawei’s in-house OSs--either HarmonyOS or EulerOS, have their commercial goals and serve as the force to drive and strengthen Huawei’s could business, Ren explained. He said Huawei called the cloud platform, which provides a wealth of components and services, "black soil", so the Saas, or software as a service, is the further development that is made under the platform. “We are still building a foundation platform for computing power, and we are doing the same way in artificial intelligence (AI),”Ren said.

While admitting Huawei still will be hit by sanctions imposed by U.S. and its allies, Ren felt optimistic on outlook of his company. "Huawei will face increasing difficulties, but it will also become more prosperous," Ren said. He predicted China would undoubtedly have a standard system better than U.S. if it did establish its own one. Head of Huawei compared the U.S. standards, which were built in 1970s , to clothes that were mended again and again for more than half of a century and left with patches everywhere. “We have made new clothes these years, why do we still make them based on those standards?” Ren asked, then added that China can directly set up standards better than those in the United States, and they will be applied in the whole world, not just in China.

Ren just stressed computing power in a dialogue disclosed last week. We are about to enter the magnificent fourth industrial revolution, which has an unimaginable scale and is based on great computing power, the 78-year-old Huawei leader told university students and other participants in Huawei-sponsored International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in August.  "US sanctions have definitely put pressure on Huawei, but pressure is also motivation," Ren told the students in ICPC. Huawei was forced to change to another infrastructure platform due to sanctions, and after going through the transition, it has established its own platform, which may not necessarily run on the same foundation as the U.S. platform but will certainly be interconnected, according to Ren.