As INNO Day 2021 approaches, OPPO has already started revealing key highlights of the event. This morning, OPPO officially announced that the company will unveil its first self-developed chipset on the first day of the event (December 14).
OPPO also announced that its chip development capabilities have made significant progress over the past few months. The company’s first self-developed chip will be an independent NPU based on TSMC’s 6nm manufacturing process, and OPPO will unveil the chipset next week.
The OPPO chip development team currently has more than 2K people (workers, researchers, or employees), including many R&D staff from Qualcomm and Intel. An insider at the company revealed that the tape out was completed in June 2021, but has yet to be announced.
He also revealed that the NPU chip will be based on a 6nm advanced EUV process and manufactured by TSMC.
In February 2020, OPPO released an internal article titled “Some Thoughts on Building Core Technologies,” which showcased the three main plans of the Mariana Project, including the software development, cloud computing, and chips.
Not only that, OPPO has registered a large number of MARISILICON trademarks this year, including names such as B, X, O, C, Z, M, E and so on. For specific information, we’ll have to wait for more leaks or until the INNO Day event 2021.
