Oppo is gearing up to launch its highly anticipated Reno 8 series of smartphone in India soon. But prior to its release, the company revealed an interesting addition to the upcoming smartphones, which is its new MariSilicon X NPU.
For those unaware, the Chinese smartphone maker had announced this chip back in December 2021 for its flagship Find X series. Now, this same NPU will be making its way to the Reno 8 series as well. While there were rumors that had revealed this information before, the brand has officially shared the news along with some improvements in its MariSilicon X platform. As per official notes, the 6nm MariSilicon X NPU will help bring end to end imaging solution on the Reno 8 series.
Thanks to proprietary algorithms, the company has developed a new way to better render Indian skin tones accurately and even create Bokeh Flare Portrait videos as well. Oppo’s AI can even distinguish between skin blemishes and beauty spots, while smartly applying different level of beautification and skin smoothening based on the age and sex of the subject. Its optimizations for the Indian market will also help improve HDR performance across wide exposure shots without user intervention.
Talking about the NPU itself, the company took 3 years to develop the chipset and it consisted of over 400 patent applications. It packs 3.6 billion transistors and can perform up to 18 trillion operations per second (18 TOPS). It is built on the 6nm process and is also capable of real time lossless AI processing in the Bayer RAW domain with images taken from the 50 megapixel IMX766 primary camera.
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