There are very few smartphone makers who can develop their own chipsets. In fact, there are just three such companies — Samsung, Apple, and Huawei. While Xiaomi tried to do the same with Surge S1, the experiment wasn’t a success.
OPPO was earlier reported to be working on its own chipset named OPPO M1. However, instead of being a processor, it turned out to be a co-processor for power optimisation on the company’s own smartphones. But now it seems that OPPO is all set to jump into mobile chipset market.
Reports indicate that Special Assistant to the CEO of OPPO has shared a company-wide internal note to all the employees which reveals “Mariana Plan” for the self-developed chips from the Chinese company.
Last year, in November, OPPO had mentioned “Mariana Plan” in its internal documents. It was noted that the project had received input and support from the OPPO TMG Technical Committee which was setup a month before that.
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Chan Yen is leading the OPPO TMG Technical Committee and is also serving as the head of OPPO’s chip platform department. Interestingly, he previously worked as the Technical Director at Qualcomm, the leading mobile chipset manufacturer.
In the recent developments, technician from Realme and OnePlus, sister companies of OPPO have also joined the core plan, hinting that OPPO is going all out with its plan to build its own chipsets.
For the development of its own chipsets, OPPO CEO Chen Yongming had revealed at the Future Technology Conference that the company would be investing about 50 billion yuan in Research & Development in the next three years.
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