Huawei to sell servers with own chips in cloud computing push

A Huawei shop is pictured in Singapore August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su/Files

This comes at a time when Huawei, which set up its cloud business unit last year, is trying to gain a firmer foothold in the public cloud market at home that is currently dominated by Alibaba. 

Huawei's semiconductor arm, Hisilicon, already makes some chips the company uses in its smartphones and telecom equipment, but the servers it currently sells to telecom companies and cloud computing clients mostly use Intel chips.