Huawei deactivates AI and cloud business group in restructuring

&gt;Huawei Cloud became China&#x27;s second-largest cloud services provider in the fourth quarter of 2020, growing its Chinese market share to 17.4%, according to data from research company Canalys. This marked a sharp contrast to the fourth quarter of 2019, when Huawei Cloud was not in the top three.<p>They entered a market dominated by 3 players (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu) and went from not even on the list to 2nd place with 17.4% share over the course of 1 year, and this is deemed a failure? This is equivalent to a new player entering the US cloud market, leapfrogging GCP and Azure in a year, and then deciding to exit the business because they haven&#x27;t caught up to AWS yet.

I feel sad somehow. Huawei was the only company which was going toe-to-toe against Google and Apple in the AI space. I saw it in their phones, which were better than many others, and had even better computational photography than Pixels of the same generation, in my opinion.<p>Combined with their chip design expertise - they were making chips that were as good or better than the Snapdragons, its clear why the US needed them kneecapped.<p>We as consumers lose when competition is stifled.