Will Huawei's HarmonyOS 鸿蒙 break the United States' decades-long desktop monopoly?

HarmonyOS  

HarmonyOS

HarmonyOS 



Huawei Technologies had an announcement that they one day hope will mark both a historic news conference and be the first displacement of Western technology in the desktop market by ousting Microsoft with new HarmonyOS powered PC's.


In Shenzhen, Guangdong province P.R.C. on Thursday, Huawei Technologies debuted personal computers powered by its operating system HarmonyOS, which uses WiFi twice as fast as current speeds. Aiming to displace  Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS in desktop Operating Systems, the HarmonyOS PCs leveraged over 2,700 core patents and five years of research and development efforts across 20 research institutes within China.

Requiring 10,000 coders to build Huawei's HarmonyOS, the OS is an entirely novel kernel-level design.  

For decades, the global PC operating system market has been dominated by Microsoft's Windows and Apple's MacOS, while domestic alternatives have largely relied on Linux-based modifications. Huawei's HarmonyOS PC breaks this paradigm by building a new core foundation from the kernel, achieving full-stack autonomy.

 NearLink: Data transmission rates 6 times that of Bluetooth and 2x that of Wi-Fi

Incorporated into HarmonyOS is NearLink : A set of standards that combine the strengths of traditional wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, while emphasizing improved performance in areas like response time, energy efficiency, signal range, and security. 

It consists of two access modes: SparkLink Low Energy (SLE) and SparkLink Basic (SLB).SLE is designed for low-power consumption, low-latency, and high-reliability applications, with a data transmission rate reportedly up to 6 times that of Bluetooth; SLB is tailored for high-speed, high-capacity, and high-precision applications, with a data transmission rate reportedly around 2 times that of Wi-Fi.

LiteOS: An OpenHarmony open-source version built around basic HarmonyOS for small devices.

LiteOS features a kernel that supports devices with a memory of just 128Kb, to 128Mb. Among the first users of HarmonyOS are McDonald's and KFC.

 

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