Huawei, aiming to break away from Android, announces its own OS 'HarmonyOS NEXT', claiming it is 3 times more efficient than Linux
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Huawei, a major Chinese communications equipment manufacturer, announced its own OS 'HarmonyOS NEXT' on January 19, 2024. A preview version has already been distributed to developers, and commercial deployment is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2024.
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Huawei has beendesignated by the United States as a 'national security threat' due to security concerns, and American companies cannot do business with it without government permission. Therefore, Huawei incorporates its own OS ``HarmonyOS'' into its smartphones instead of Android, but it has been pointed out that the early HarmonyOS was mostly a derivative of Android.
Pointed out that the proprietary OS 'HarmonyOS' scheduled to be installed on Huawei smartphones is essentially Android - GIGAZINE
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Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, who announced ``HarmonyOS NEXT'' at a developer conference, said, ``This is a real OS, not an Android skin.''
Equipped with full-stack in-house developed technology, HarmonyOS NEXT uses the Harmony kernel instead of Linux or Unix, and is said to be three times more memory efficient than Linux.
In addition to efficiency, HarmonyOS NEXT is said to offer a smooth usage experience with 'heterogeneous native-like' mechanisms and has received three of the highest security certifications with kernel-level security. That's what he said. It also has on-device AI capabilities to compete with Android.
Although the transition to a proprietary platform will mean that Android-based applications will no longer be supported, more than 200 industry partners are currently working on developing native HarmonyOS apps, with the goal of expanding to 5,000 partner companies by the end of 2024. said Zhu Yonggang, president of Huawei Consumer Business Cloud Services.
To expand the ecosystem, Huawei is investing 7 billion yuan (approximately 144 billion yen) to support areas such as native apps and software development kits (SDKs).
The use of HarmonyOS is growing, and according to the announcement, HarmonyOS is running on more than 800 million devices since its release in August 2019. In addition, market research company TechInsights predicts that HarmonyOS will overtake Apple's iOS and take the second-largest market share in China by 2024, as Huawei makes a full-fledged return to the 5G smartphone market with the P60 Pro. A report has been published.
A developer preview version of HarmonyOS Next has already been released to programmers, and Huawei plans to start commercial use in the fourth quarter of 2024.
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