Since the beginning of this year, there has been a situation of "lack of cores" around the world, mobile phones, cars, base stations, servers and other products have been greatly reduced due to insufficient chip stock, taking the iPhone13 series, due to apple's A15 chip long-term production capacity can not keep up with sales, resulting in the iPhone13 series will become the most value-preserving model in Apple's history.
Manufacturers with chip self-development capabilities are affected by the lack of cores to be a little smaller, and those who are highly dependent on the second-hand market to purchase chips manufacturers are called a miserable, some company products are because there is no chip can not be produced, so in order to solve this problem, many companies have officially announced that they want to develop chips since this year.
Recently, there is another mobile phone giant officially announced the self-developed chip, this company is the domestic veteran mobile phone brand OPPO, from the OPPO public news, OPPO This first self-developed mobile phone chip will be released at the Future Technology Conference on December 14.
In the current domestic mobile phone market, only Huawei and Xiaomi have really developed mobile phone chips and carried out commercial sales, but Xiaomi's self-developed chips have not appeared on the market for several years, and it is basically certain that Xiaomi has abandoned the self-developed chip business. So now only Huawei has made its own chips, and the level has reached the world's top, which can be on an equal footing with Apple, Samsung, MediaTek and Qualcomm.
And OPPO this time officially announced that the self-developed chip also makes Huawei no longer alone, the domestic mobile phone market will also usher in another reshuffle, when Huawei mobile phones can rise rapidly, self-developed chips basically account for half of the credit, once OPPO can persist, with 5 years or even 10 years to improve the self-developed chips, perhaps the future will become the second "Huawei".
But it is undeniable that OPPO's decision to develop its own mobile phone chips is very surprising, because Xiaomi's previous experience tells us that it is too expensive to develop chips. Taking the 6nm process chip as an example, its cost is 2-3 times that of 12nm, and it will require tens of millions of dollars in funds for a tape-out. This kind of research and development business with large capital and large risks has always been something that enterprises are reluctant to do, but OPPO has done it this time.
And according to industry media reports, OPPO's chip research and development team has reached about 2,000 people, and OPPO founder Chen Mingyong has announced that he will invest 50 billion yuan in research and development in the next three years, which also means that self-developed chips have become a strategic deployment within OPPO.
Many netizens see that OPPO is about to launch its own mobile phone chip, and can't help but wonder if Zhang Zhaozhong's prediction is going to be realized? As early as August 2020, Zhang Zhaozhong said a prediction, when he spoke online that after three years, domestic 5nm chips would be all over the street.
Isn't this OPPO's official announcement confirming Zhang Zhaozhong's prophecy? Moreover, OPPO has developed the most advanced process, the most difficult and the most integrated mobile phone chip. OpPO is not the first domestic self-developed chip, and naturally it will not die the last.
The rise of domestic chips is unstoppable!