These inventions satisfy Huawei’s criteria for building a fully connected and intelligent world and include computing, its HarmonyOS operating system and storage solutions.

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The world-leading technology company has a stringent four-step awards process to select its top achievements of the year, given that it publishes thousands of inventions. It aims to recognise and reward inventions that have the potential to pioneer new product lines, become key commercial features of products and deliver significant business value to both Huawei and the wider industry.

Capacity looks at this year’s 10 below.

10. Ultra Chroma Camera

The Ultra Chroma Camera features a multi-spectral array architecture for colour processing. Huawei said it combined environmental spectrum capture, signal processing channels and core colour restoration algorithms to deliver true-to-life colours and what it calls a “what you see is what you get” experience.

9. Fixed 5G Advanced – 50G PON technology

Huawei describe this innovation as a significant step in its mission to drive the next evolution of broadband. The 50G PON Technology is based on an innovative system burst architecture, in addition to advanced optoelectronic design and manufacturing. Huawei said the invention is the “backbone behind a high-performance, short-preamble, cost-effective and highly reliable 50G-PON system” – remarking that it is the first to be commercially deployed in the fixed access industry.

8. Ascend-aware inference acceleration via mathematical innovation

This invention uses mathematics to complement physics, optimising operators and algorithms to maximise the capabilities of Ascend chips and servers. Huawei said the technology seeks to drive peak inference performance for Ascend-based LLMs.

7. A new paradigm for assisted driving based on real-time environmental awareness

To create a safer and more intelligent driving experience, this invention integrates standard map data with real-time vehicular sensing to reconstruct road structures and detect general obstacles in real time. Regardless of road type, the technology enables vehicles to understand the road, recognise their surroundings and drive in a human-like way.

Global interest continues in the self-driving car market, with McKinsey & Company having predicted that, by 2035, autonomous driving could create US$300 billion to $400 billion in revenue.

China is a large market for self-driving cars, with more tested there than anywhere else in the world. According to the China Society of Automotive Engineers, by 2030, a fifth of new cars sold in China will be fully driverless and 70% will feature advanced assisted-driving technology.

6. GigaGreen RAN

GigaGreen RAN is Huawei’s suite of wireless solutions and products designed to provide high-performance 5G networks with improved energy efficiency. The technology is designed to boost RAN performance while cutting energy consumption. Compared with other wireless base stations in the market, Huawei said GigaGreen RAN consumes 30% less energy and has 30% higher integration.

Additionally, its multi-band sharing architecture is designed to boost the efficiency of wideband power amplifiers to 10% higher than the industry average – enhancing network experience by 20%. It also works to reduce energy consumption by 30% with its “0 Bit, 0 Watt” functionality to help mobile operators “maximise spectral utilisation”.

5. Next-generation SSD with ultra-high capacity and performance

Developed in partnership with a team in Switzerland, this SSD invention integrates advanced packaging technology, synergy between hardware, software and chips and algorithms to create a next-generation SSD. It delivers greater capacity density of storage systems is designed to make storing, accessing and using vast amounts of data faster and more reliable.

Inventor Ji Zhang explained at the IPR event that explosive growth in the AI era has presented storage with capacity and memory wall challenges. Therefore, the SSD invention must achieve “higher performance, larger capacity and greater reliability,” he said, to break through the memory wall. The solution aims to empower a range of industries, including healthcare, financial credit and drug R&D, to embrace AI data.

4. Short reach optical interconnect

Huawei said this invention is a major innovation in optical chips, optical-electrical links and network systems to scale up AI. When combined, these components form an optical interconnect for intelligent computing clusters that could improve reliability, latency and power consumption for electrical interconnects.

The company explained that the solution expands coverage by “a factor of 12” and enhance O&M efficiency by 40%. The invention could have promise for the data centre community.

3. New form factors for foldables

Described by Alan Fan at the IPR event as “a mission once thought impossible,” this invention has made breakthroughs across multiple domains. It has enabled the world’s first commercially available tri-fold smartphone and the largest commercial foldable PC. Huawei particularly noted the uniqueness of its virtual keyboard to bolster digital productivity.

2. HarmonyOS full-stack architectural innovation

HarmonyOS, Huawei’s intelligent operating system, now has new full-stack innovations to offer users a smooth and more secure experience. Jie Sun, chief researcher, systems optimisation and control at Huawei, described this invention as able to seamlessly deliver a fluid and secure experience.

Huawei said HarmonyOS 6 has achieved a 40% enhancement compared with HarmonyOS 4 – a testament to how quickly the company is developing its technology. It uses memory-boosted computing to reduce data transfer overhead.

“Using a system-level encrypted sharing mechanism, it gives users fine-grained control over their data even when it leaves the device, making data sharing more secure,” Huawei said.

1. Scale-up ultra-large-scale SuperPoD system

Huawei’s key highlight of 2025 was, the company said, not an easy task. The SuperPoD system claims to break the boundary of a single node, with its scale-up network integrating thousands of NPUs and CPUs into an AI superserver.

Such a feat enables all resources to be put together like building blocks for a wide variety of different tasks – which could enable enterprises to tailor the technology to their individual needs.

Hongwei Sun, chief computing software architect at Huawei, explained how the architecture can connect hundreds to thousands of AI processors so that they can work together like a single computer.

Huawei has a patent to protect this innovation and could use the technology to support larger Huawei supernodes in the future. The invention also maximises computing performance for burst AI workloads, the company said.

SuperPoDs have redefined the boundaries of AI infrastructure and are becoming the new norm for large-scale AI. As of September 2025, Huawei has deployed more than 300 Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoDs to serve 20 customers in sectors like ISP, telecoms and manufacturing.

“It’s fair to say that this SuperPoD, with its debut in 2025, marks the first milestone in Huawei’s AI SuperPoD journey,” said Eric Xu at Huawei Connect 2025 in September.

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