As INNO Day 2021 approaches, OPPO has already started revealing key highlights of the event. This morning, OPPO officially announced that the company will unveil its first self-developed chipset on the first day of the event (December 14).
OPPO has also previously announced that the company’s “core-making” ability has made significant progress in the past few months. According to reports, the company’s first self-developed chip will be an independent NPU (Neural Processor) based on TSMC’s 6nm manufacturing process. OPPO will unveil the same chipset next week.
The OPPO chip development team currently has more than 2K people (workers, researchers, or employees), including many R&D staff from Qualcomm and Intel. An insider at the company revealed that the tape out was completed in June 2021, but it hasn’t been announced yet.
He also revealed that the expected NPU chip would be based on a 6nm advanced EUV process and manufactured by TSMC.
In recent years, prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers have also made remarkable efforts in the semiconductor industry. We have Huawei’s HiSilicon, Xiaomi’s Surging S1 chip, and Vivo’s V1 ISP chip.
In February 2020, OPPO internally released an article, “Some Thoughts on Building Core Technology,” showcasing the three major programs of the “Marianas Plan” involving software development, cloud, and chips. It was also reported that the origin of the naming of the “Marianas Plan” is because Marianas is the deepest trench in the world, implying that the program is more capable.
Not only that, it was also found that OPPO has registered a large number of MARISILICON (Marianas Silicon) trademarks this year, including names such as B, X, O, C, Z, M, E and so on. For specific information, we’ll have to wait for more leaks or until the INNO Day event 2021.