According to the latest rankings, Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo, are in the top five in terms of global market share. Huawei was once in second place, but due to various issues (primarily political), the company’s smartphone business declined.
Currently, Huawei is the only brand that has the ability to manufacture its own chipsets for mobile phones. Even Xiaomi attempted to do this, but later abandoned this path. However, the latest news suggests that OPPO is now entering this field.
According to the Cell Phone Chip Expert, OPPO’s first self-developed Chipset has been taped out. It will be manufactured using a 4nm manufacturing process, and the foundry manufacturer is likely to be TSMC. Additionally, the chipset will support 5G network connectivity.
The experts predict that OPPO’s self-developed processor will begin tape-out in the second half of 2023, and the SoC may come out in 2024. However, OPPO seems to be much faster than our predictions. It is also possible that we may see OPPO’s first smartphone with its self-developed chipset in the second half of this year or the following year.
It was also previously reported that OPPO has invested more than $1.4 billion and thousands of IC designers and developers in R&D to develop its own SoCs in major cities in China, including Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.
In the past two years, news about OPPO’s self-developed chipset manufacturing has been widely circulated on the Internet. And today, it seems that this news is not far from being confirmed.
