Video | 'Keep walking; we'll find bridges, roads': A dialogue with He Tingbo
On May 25, He Tingbo, Huawei's director of the board and president of its Semiconductor Business Department, published a paper titled "A Time Scaling Theory for Multi-Layer Electronic Systems" on ChinaXiv, a preprint platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for sharing scientific and technical papers. In this paper, He elaborated on the Tau (τ) Scaling Law that she presented at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and unveiled Huawei's roadmap for releasing some of its Kirin and Ascend series chips. The People's Daily recently sat down for an exclusive interview with He Tingbo. In May 2019, a public letter she wrote placed her in the spotlight. In this letter, she announced that Huawei's Plan B for chips that the company had been working on for years had suddenly become Plan A, and that the company would strive to ensure its self-sufficiency in technology. Now, seven years later, she is back in the public eye.