Ren Zhengfei

Founder & CEO, Huawei

Search every verified Ren Zhengfei interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, appeared in a livestream on May 25, 2026, to present the company's Tau (τ) Scaling Law, a new principle for semiconductor development. During the event, he stated that Huawei had shifted from geometric scaling to "time scaling" as a guiding principle for electronic system evolution. He said the company had spent six years preparing tools and methodologies, including EDA tools and design approaches, and that a "surprise" for the industry would be delivered in winter 2026, describing it as "a big leap ahead." Zhengfei discussed the introduction of "logical folding," a design methodology for digital circuits that he said optimizes power, performance, density, and cost. He claimed that in 2026, logical folding achieved 238 million transistors per square millimeter in a single step, with a 41% improvement in power efficiency and a nearly 13% increase in maximum clock frequency. He also announced a new bus protocol called UB, which he said unifies interconnect across computer systems. He projected that by 2031, Huawei's high-end chips based on the Tau law would have transistor density equivalent to 14 Å (1.4 nm) processes, with CPU core frequencies exceeding 5 GHz.