According to the latest rankings, Chinese smartphone manufacturing companies, including Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo, are in the top five in terms of global market share. Huawei was once in second place, but due to various issues (primarily political), the company’s smartphone business declined.
Currently, Huawei is the only brand that has the ability to manufacture its own chipsets for mobile phones. Even Xiaomi tried to do this, but later, the company abandoned this path. However, the latest news suggests that OPPO is now entering this field.
According to the Weibo blogger Cell Phone Chip Expert, OPPO’s first-ever self-developed Chipset is already in taped-out. It would be built using a 4nm manufacturing process, and the foundry manufacturer might be TSMC. Further, this chipset will also support 5G network connectivity.
The experts predicted that OPPO’s self-developed processor would start to tape out in the second half of 2023, and the final product may come out in 2024. However, OPPO seems to be a lot quicker than our predictions. It is also possible that we might be able to see OPPO’s first smartphone with its self-developed chipset in the second half of this year or the following year.
It was also previously reported that OPPO has invested more than $1.4 billion and thousands of IC designers and developers in R&D to develop its own SoCs in major cities in China, including Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.
Over the past two years, news about OPPO’s self-developed chipset manufacturing has been widely circulated online. And today, it seems that this news is not far from being confirmed.