Huawei’s CEO Reveals Expected Damage Of US Sanctions

[Mr. Babatunde]

Reuters reports that Huawei's founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, says he expects US sanctions to cause the company's income to fall by billions of usd.

The business expects its income to fall this year to $100 billion, down from last year's $104 billion. Previously, it said it was expecting income to be worth $125 billion.

“We did not expect [the Trump administration] would attack us on so many aspects,” Ren said, although he added that the company did not expect to cut R&D spending or conduct large-scale layoffs.

The CEO had initially been defiant in the face of Trump’s executive order, and said that Huawei had contingency plans to deal with the ban. However, the full implications of the ban have since become more clear.

Google has suspended the firm’s Android license, ARM will no longer sell it designs for its chipsets, and multiple countries are moving to suspend the use of Huawei’s networking equipment.

Even its use of SD cards and Wi-Fi tech has been complicated, though not banned outright. Ren confirmed that these issues could result in a drop in international smartphone shipments of 40 percent, after Bloomberg reported that the company was preparing for a drop of as much as 60 percent. The company might not recover until 2021, the CEO said.