On December 14, at OPPO's annual Future Technology Conference, OPPO founder and CEO Chen Mingyong announced that OPPO's first self-developed chip, Mariana X, was officially released.
"A technology company, without the underlying core technology, there can be no future; and without the underlying core technology flagship products, it is a castle in the air." Chen Mingyong said that Mariana X is a small step in OPPO's self-developed chip, and will continue to invest resources in the future, with a team of thousands of people, to make self-developed chips down-to-earth.
OPPO Founder and CEO Chen Mingyong CHEN Mingyong, founder and CEO of OPPO
Nandu reporter learned that OPPO began to develop its own chips around 2019, and the first mobile phone equipped with Mariana X chip will be launched in the first quarter of next year.
For why to choose self-developed chips, Chen Mingyong said that first, because users need - users' demand for mobile phone images is constantly upgrading, in order to truly solve the imaging industry problems and provide product experiences that exceed user expectations, it is necessary to work hard from the chip to provide chip-level solutions. The second is the OPPO strategy, OPPO in 2020 has formulated a 3 + N + X technology strategy, with a chip to cut in, to focus on the underlying core technology, so that soft, hard, and service to play a synergistic advantage, the consistency and consistency of the user experience is really good.
According to OPPO, Mariana X is the world's first NPU chip dedicated to imaging in the 6nm process process, integrating OPPO's self-developed MariLumi image processing unit, which supports 20bit bandwidth and supports the ultra-dynamic range of 20-bit Ultra HDR. OPPO said that this is also more than ten times the highest memory throughput of mobile phones, and its AI computing power also exceeds Apple's A15.
In addition, on the same day, OPPO also released the third generation of AR glasses - OPPO Air Glass smart glasses. According to reports, the main body of the glasses weighs less than 30 grams, and the main body and glasses are designed separately. The official said, "The custom frame can be adapted to a variety of optical lenses, regardless of myopia, can be adapted to compatibility." "At present, the main functions are teleprompter (real-time viewing of message notifications), walking/cycling navigation, shop visits, etc.
Third-generation AR glasses
It is worth mentioning that on the same day, Chen Mingyong also officially announced the return of OnePlus mobile phones to OPPO and became an independent brand of OPPO, and Liu Zuohu served as oppo's chief product officer.
Written by: Nandu reporter Kong Xueshao