The vivo X80 series mobile phone that was just released on April 25, the most eye-catching place is undoubtedly the lens module behind it. According to vivo, in order to comprehensively improve the image performance of mobile phones, this module, which occupies nearly one-third of the backplane area, in addition to the latest generation of optical devices and imaging algorithms, is also equipped with a new generation of self-developed V1+ chips.
This chip is not small. At the press conference just a week ago, Hu Baishan, executive vice president of Vivo, said that the new V1+ chip is both a professional image chip and a display performance chip. Through the 300-person development team's one-year-long tuning, the chip achieved a high degree of synergy with MediaTek Tianji 9000 and Snapdragon 8 series chips, fully stimulating the performance potential of SoC chips.
With the further blessing of ZEISS T* optical lens, color and image algorithms, the X80 series mobile phones have achieved greater breakthroughs in image performance, whether it is in night HDR, professional portraits, urban close-ups or sports captures, which have a good performance. For example, in the night scene shooting, the night scene preview effect of the mobile phone main camera is said to be comparable to the low-light night vision device, and the ultra-wide-angle lens and the front lens support the real-time black light night vision function, which breaks through the bottleneck and limitation of night scene creation to a certain extent.
In addition, the mobile phone is also equipped with VC liquid cooling, dual-cell 80W wired flash charge, Samsung E5 AMOLED screen, X-axis linear motor, stereo dual speakers, etc., and adapted to the OriginOS Ocean operating system.
The reporter noted that since 2021, mobile phone manufacturers have made full efforts to create self-developed chips. However, compared with the aggressive attitude of Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. on "making cores", vivo gives people a feeling of "not hurrying". For example, Xiaomi has been involved in the self-developed chip business as early as 2014, OPPO successfully completed the patent application in 2020, and vivo did not recognize the relevant "core- building" plan for the first time until August 2021, and clearly stated that in the short and medium term, it will only put forward a chip self-development plan around the four major tracks of design, image, system and performance, and will not make efforts to build SoC processor chips.
In this regard, vivo's response is "not to pursue the start, but to do the late start and come first." "Hu Baishan said that vivo's long-term doctrine is not only to do the right thing, but also to do the right thing." We have to use up to 5 to 6 years of technical pre-research, in the direction we set, according to our own rhythm, out of a path that belongs to vivo. ”
Some insiders said that mobile phone manufacturers to develop "self-developed chips" to help them find and create new demand and use this to define the market, and then jump out of stock competition. More importantly, this has played a positive role in promoting the development of the domestic semiconductor industry, and is expected to encourage more manufacturers to devote themselves to chip research and development and promote the prosperity and development of the national chip industry.
In addition, the in-depth joint investigation of vivo X80 series and Qualcomm and MediaTek's two major SoC platforms also allows the industry to see the potential of independent research and development of domestic mobile phone chips and industrial synergy - the future growth of domestic mobile phones will be based on the "double cycle" of domestic market demand upgrading and partner co-construction ecology.
[Reporter] Xu Jun
【Author】 Xu Jun
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client