Huawei's Secret Sauce: A War Hero's Recipe for Semiconductor Self Reliance Liao Heng, chief scientist behind Huawei's Ascend AI processors, has given a candid interview that sheds light on China's push for technological self reliance.
His narrative begins in the 1980s, when he was one of China's most promising young minds at Tsinghua University.
A decade later, he conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University, where he witnessed American chip start ups falter despite their perceived superiority.