Earlier today (8th December 2021), Oppo had officially announced that it is working on its first self developed chip. Now, a new report from a tipster has claimed that the chip will be based on TSMC‘s 6nm process technology and might be launching soon.

A known tipster @数码闲聊站 on Weibo (a Chinese microblogging website) shared new information related to the company’s upcoming self developed chipset. While the Chinese smartphone brand did not not share any specifics regarding this chip, the tipster revealed some key details. As per the social media post, the new proprietary chipset in question will be an NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit). The tipster added that this new chipset will also offer new imaging solutions and will be arriving in smartphones soon as well.

Similarly, Huawei had also launched its HiSilicon Kirin 970 chipset back in 2017, which also featured an NPU for the first time. Now, it seems that Oppo is also following this move for its own self developed chipset. Notably, Digital Chat Station claimed that the new chip will not be exclusive to Oppo smartphones alone, and will even include OnePlus models as well. For those unaware, the former had merged with the latter earlier this year, with both brands being collectively known as Oujia.

The tipster stated that phones from Oujia will feature these new chips that will also be based on TSMC’s (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) 6nm chip processing technology. Unfortunately, this is all the information we have at the moment but keep in mind that this report is still unconfirmed as of right now, so take it with a grain of salt.

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Oppo has just confirmed that it will be developing its own custom made mobile processors for its smartphones. The Chinese tech giant will be working with key suppliers for this endeavor and has already begun its efforts in the field.

According to Liu Bo, President of Oppo’s China business, “We have to tackle the chip technology and make the technology the crucial driving force for our future growth.” The senior executive revealed this information after rumors had been going around for weeks, while also mentioning the numerous challenges the company would face. Liu even mentioned that the company will start by working with key suppliers to design and develop its own smartphone chipsets.

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At the moment, Oppo’s primary partners and chip suppliers include the US chip giant, Qualcomm, Taiwan based MediaTek, and South Korea’s Samsung. The chips from these companies can be found in Oppo handsets, although, the further news regarding its plans on developing its chip system has yet to be divulged. The new custom made chips will also help differentiate the company’s products over other companies that utilize more readily available chips in the market.

Notably, the company has been hiring chip engineers and other high level executives from top chipmakers like Qualcomm, MediaTek, and more since 2019. This is indicative of its plans on proprietary chip technology. Interestingly, this news arrives mere weeks after its rival, Huawei lost its chip supply from TSMC due to recent US sanctions. So we can assume that the event kickstarted the race for custom made chips even more for Oppo, so as to avoid complications like this later on.

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OPPO was first rumoured to be working on its own chipset called OPPO M1 in November 2019. The company indeed confirmed this in January 2020 but is yet to share further details. Apparently, the Chinese tech giant is still recruiting experts for the project.

A new report claims the BBK subsidiary is poaching MediaTek and UNISOC engineers in its bid to woo them over. Jeffery Ju, MediaTek’s former co-chief operating officer is reported to have been hired. While Ju left MediaTek in 2017, OPPO is also looking to hire another top executive from MediaTek’s 5G smartphone chip development in a couple of months. The report also tips OPPO as spreading its tentacles to pick up executives from Qualcomm and Huawei’s HiSilicon unit, adds the report.

OPPO’s effort to commence chip manufacture isn’t unrelated to Huawei’s predicament even though the company believes owning the chip design capability will give it more control over its supply chain, according to sources. The path to outputting a workable chipset isn’t a rapid one, though. It might take up to a year before a chipset is born. The success of such chipset against those from Qualcomm and Mediatek looks bleak. Recall Xiaomi made a similar effort with the Surge S1 but since then nothing as heard about the self-developed chip. We hope to get more details of the OPPO chipset in the coming months.

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