On December 14, OPPO officially released the first self-developed image-specific NPU chip Mariana X, which can be used to assist in image processing. In 2019, OPPO set up a self-developed chip team and announced a 3-year R&D investment of 50 billion yuan, and the project was also named the Mariana Plan.
According to AI Finance, in addition to NPU, OPPO is also developing ISPs (image signal processors), baseband chips and system-on-chips (SOCs). Prior to this, Vivo released the first ISP chip with less technical difficulty, but OPPO seems to be more ambitious, wanting to challenge baseband chips and SOCs. "The baseband is difficult, there are not many teams, and the company's current expectations are not high." A person familiar with the matter told AI Finance and Economics.
In addition, according to AI Finance and Economics, the OPPO chip team has a scale of thousands of people, and the average annual salary has exceeded one million yuan, most of which are dug up from Huawei HiSilicon and Tsinghua Zhanrui. (Text/Ma Ce Editor/You Yong)
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