While the United States and its allies have blocked Huawei in various parts of the world, not every country has completely rejected it.
Huawei announced that the first phase of its Cambridge campus in the United Kingdom has been approved, mainly for the development and manufacturing of optoelectronics.
The first phase of Huawei's Cambridge campus is planned for a 9-acre site with a floor space of 50,000 square meters. Its planned investment scale of £1 billion is expected to bring more than 400 jobs, and upon completion will become Huawei's overseas optoelectronic business headquarters.
The investment will boost the region's high-tech industry and further strengthen Cambridge's position as a global innovation hub.
The UK's South Cambridgeshire District Council held a remote construction planning meeting on the 25th and approved the construction plan for Huawei's research and development center.
The project planning took more than three years.
In 2017, Huawei began selecting a site for the optoelectronics R&D and manufacturing facility, and completed the purchase of a new 500-acre South Cambridgeshire site in 2018.
The planning application process started in early 2019. The site was formerly stationery company Spicers' paper mill and manufacturing facility west of Thorston.
This year marks Huawei's 20th year in the UK, where the company currently employs 1,600 people.
Huawei said the first phase of the project will focus on research and development and manufacturing of optical devices and modules. By integrating R&D and manufacturing functions in order to speed up the product development and commercialization process, it will bring products to market more efficiently.
Optoelectronics is a key technology for fiber optic communication systems, and Huawei's major investment in the UK aims to promote the application of related technologies in data centers and network infrastructure around the world.
