Smartphone manufacturers are designing their own chipsets for their smartphones like the Tensor SoC on the Google Pixel 6 Series. On similar lines now, a new report suggests that a popular Chinese manufacturer is also said to design its own SoC for smartphones.
OPPO is reportedly designing its own System on a Chip (SoC) for its flagship smartphone line up, and the company is expected to release smartphones with this SoC in 2023 or 2024. Further, the report also suggests that OPPO is said to use the 3nm production technology by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing company.
As of now, OPPO’s smartphones are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek chipsets, and this move by the company will give tough competition to other chip manufacturers. We should know more information in the coming months.
Commenting on this, Brady Wang, Analyst, Counterpoint said:
That’s why we don’t see a lot of players boldly use their own mobile processors, and why most of them started from developing image signal processing chips first. For most smartphone makers, having their own mobile processors brings two main benefits, differentiation and better supply chain control. If everyone is using Qualcomm’s chipsets for flagship phones, then it’s very hard to claim that you have unique performance and products. Meanwhile, you have to compete for allocations of chips and resources with your competitors during a time of shortage, and do not have direct visibility of your chip supply chain.