Huawei‘s annual developer conference, HDC 2024, was the stage for the company’s biggest announcement yet: the official launch of HarmonyOS NEXT, the next iteration of its homegrown operating system.
The announcement comes after years of development for HarmonyOS, natively called Hongmeng on the mainland. The China-developed OS ditches the Linux kernel and Android Open Source Project (AOSP) codebase entirely in favor of a fully independent architecture built around Huawei’s Hongmeng kernel and system.
As the OS is made from the ground up, Huawei claims the new system architecture delivers a 30% improvement in overall machine performance and a 20% reduction in power consumption.