SHANGHAI/BEIJING ¨C When He Tingbo was put in charge of Huawei¡¯s chip development in 2003, the young engineer was handed an annual budget of $400 million and a mandate that would eventually put her at the center of China¡¯s most consequential technology effort.
More than two decades later, ?He, often described in Chinese technology circles as Huawei¡¯s ¡°chip queen,¡°?has become one of the company¡¯s most important ?executives and ?a symbol of China¡¯s determination to survive U.S. sanctions and build a self-reliant semiconductor business.
He ?is president of Huawei¡¯s semiconductor business and director of its Scientist Committee. She is also one of only two women on Huawei¡¯s 17-member board, alongside Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei and Huawei¡¯s rotating chairwoman.
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