By Mathieu Chartier (@Chartier_mat) Share: 3

In a few years, Oppo plans to market smartphones that will exploit internal developed processors, like Apple mobiles and certain products signed Huawei or Samsung.A real technological challenge.

Apple, Huawei, Samsung, Google… Smartphones manufacturers developing the chips of their phones themselves are more and more numerous.It must be said that the strategy has multiple advantages: mastering internally the hardware and software parties of its products to better optimize them, no longer depend on semiconductor suppliers such as Mediatek or Qualcomm, stand out from competition by differentiating its phones further, etc.So inevitably, it risks making more and more followers in the future.

A project for 2023 or 2024

According to Nikkei Asia, the next one to succumb to this trend may well be OPPO, the brand of the BBK Electronics group which merged with OnePlus.Oppo, the fourth largest smartphones seller in the world intends to integrate its own SOCs into its smartphones ranges in 2023 or 2024, depending on the time that the development of these processors will take.

Another advantage cited by Oppo according to the indiscretions heard by Asian media: this takeover on the material part could help the company to avoid - or in any case to better bypass - the difficulties of supply and other shortages in the future.The current situation, very complicated with chip founders with limited production capacities that are overloaded, would therefore have clearly encouraged Oppo to take this path.Still, it will be necessary to obtain production slots from TSMC, knowing that Oppo would target the 3 nm engraving process of the Taiwanese founder, world leader in the manufacture of computer flea.

Opportunities, but also risks

This movement is not a total surprise when you know that Oppo regularly publishes job offers for engineers and processors.The company has also been able to recruit experts in computer chips and artificial intelligence in recent times at Mediatek, Qualcomm or Huawei.But even by entrusting these projects to talented engineers, smartphones manufacturers wishing to develop their own chips always take a risk: that that their SoCs are not as efficient and stable as standardized models pushed by world suppliers such as Qualcomm.Reason why there are many manufacturers to stick to the development of more modest homemade chips, such as ISP (processors dedicated to image processing).

Et puis parvenir à concevoir un SoC maison qui soit suffisamment bon pour tenir tête à la concurrence nécessite des investissements en R&D et ingénierie toujours plus grands, à mesure que les processeurs se complexifient.Reason why everyone is impatiently expects to see how Google came out with its Tensor, the first SOC designed internally which equips the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.The model to follow at the moment Apple on the telephony market.Model that the American firm is successfully reproduced on its Mac with M1 processors.

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