Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is going to make chips

OPPO has made plans to make chips and established a technical committee for this.

On the evening of February 16, the special assistant of the CEO of OPPO released an internal article titled "Some Thoughts on Building Core Technology", which proposed three major plans, including software development, cloud, and the "Mariana Plan" on chips, according to 36Kr.

Mariana is the deepest trench in the world, and OPPO used it to describe the hardest thing to do "top-level chip".

Based on current information, the Mariana Plan is a separate project internally, and its senior director of product planning is Jiang Bo.

The Mariana plan had already begun last year. The name of the plan appeared in internal documents in November last year, but it is only now being notified to all employees.

OPPO's chip TMG (Technical Committee) guarantees technical investment in this plan, which was formally announced in October last year. As part of the entire group TMG, it is responsible for internal and external resource coordination and key project reviews.

The head of the chip technology committee is Chen Yan, the director of the chip platform department. He was previously the head of the Software Research Center of the OPPO Research Institute. He was once the technical director of Qualcomm.

OPPO is advancing its chip layout step by step. In January of this year, Chip TMG had more detailed planning and personnel appointments, and it "responsible for the entire group's chip platform definition and chip development field leadership". Realme and OnePlus technicians also joined the chip TMG expert team It can be seen that "manufacturing chips" is one of the important future directions for the entire Oujia Holdings (including OPPO, Realme and OnePlus).

OPPO has long been a clue to make chips. Last November, OPPO applied for the trademark of "OPPO M1" at the European Intellectual Property Office. This product is just a coprocessor, that is, an auxiliary computing chip.

Prior to this, OPPO has developed a more mature chip for power management chips to support VOOC flash charging.

At the Future Technology Conference in December last year, OPPO changed its low-key style. OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong, who has not been out for a long time, appeared, and claimed that the total investment in research and development in the next three years will reach 50 billion yuan, of which the chip part will naturally burn out a lot of money.