Although the development of mainland science and technology started late, but Huawei is the latecomer, in the chip and other aspects to achieve overtake the Western developed countries, at the same time this also makes Huawei become a thorn in the eyes of the United States, a thorn in the flesh, according to common sense, the United States should vigorously develop science and technology, to achieve the reverse of Huawei, but the old United States did the opposite, chose the most despised commercial means, suppressed and sanctioned Huawei, and finally let Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip retire early,
After Huawei was sanctioned, many people in China believed: the old United States not only can not defeat Huawei, but will promote the development of Chinese chips, and the richest man in the United States, Bill Gates, also thinks so, it is worth noting that Bill Gates did not underestimate Chinese companies, and the second "Huawei" has surfaced!
According to relevant domestic media reports, OPPO's self-developed mobile phone chip is ready to achieve mass production at the end of the year! The chip is a mobile phone processor AP, using TSMC's 4nm manufacturing process, but does not integrate the baseband, but plugs in like Apple chips, but OPPO plugs in MediaTek's 5G baseband.
Regarding the problem of external 5G baseband, in fact, this is not surprising, because the baseband and communication patents do not coexist, including Apple, the reason why it cannot bring its own baseband is that the patent is not in their hands.
OPPO's independent research and development of mobile phone chips has actually begun to plan for a long time. OPPO announced its own "Mariana Plan" chip strategy in 2019, and since 2021, OPPO has continuously launched OPPO's dedicated Mariana X image chip, Bluetooth audio SOC, power management chip, etc., which has accumulated a lot of experience for the development of chips. And in 2022, it also signed a cross-patent license agreement with Huawei, including a series of communication patents such as 5G.
It is understood that OPPO's chip research and development team members have thousands, many of them are elite from Huawei, and the investment in chips is also very generous, without stinging, which shows OPPO's firm attitude to chip research and development!
Unlike Huawei, Huawei is involved in many businesses, while OPPO has few types of business, which also allows him to invest a lot of time and energy in developing chips.
With OPPO's example, I believe that other technology companies are likely to keep up with the pace of independent research and development of mobile phone chips.