Oppo Ready To Rival Apple And Google With Own Chipset in 2024

Oppo is the latest tech giant planning for its own chipset which will be a part of products in the coming years. New reports surfacing this week suggest that Oppo will announce its in-house chip in 2024. We’ve been hearing about Oppo’s chip plans for the past few years, so we’ll wait to see if this timeline checks out.

The development will certainly come as a surprise to chip giants like Qualcomm and MediaTek, who have been regular partners with Oppo for its smartphones over the years. And the prospect of an Oppo phone with a built-in chip is likely to generate excitement in the market.

Oppo has already brought a neural processing unit (NPU) and a connectivity chip as a part of the MariSilicon lineup, but having a system-on-chip (SoC) would be a gamechanger for the tech behemoth. The report from it mentions that the major chip design process has already been completed, which makes the 2024 timeline realistic for the company.

We’ve heard previous reports about Oppo banking on TSMC’s expertise to manufacture its chipset based on the 4nm architecture. We still do not know the nature of the SoC that will be produced, whether it will cater to devices in the high-end or mid-range bracket. But Node’s process of chip manufacturing hints strongly at a major product using the new hardware.

Using an in-house chipset also means better software-hardware integration for the devices, which has been difficult for Android phone makers to achieve for a few years now.

And Oppo’s decision to go in-house with its hardware could directly apply to its other brands, especially OnePlus which is now part of the Oppo device ecosystem.

Apple and Samsung have been giants in this department with their A-series and Exynos SoCs for mobile devices. Even Google entered the fray in 2021 with the Pixel 6 series with Tensor chips.

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