In response to media reports on chip-making plans, OPPO responded that the core strategy is to make good products and this will not change the current relationship with partners.
Any R&D investment is to enhance product competitiveness and user experience, OPPO added, according to C114.
At the OPPO Future Technology Conference 2019 held last year, OPPO founder and CEO Chen Mingyong said that in the next three years, OPPO's total R&D investment in technology will reach 50 billion.
"OPPO will invest in the most core hardware underlying technology and software engineering architecture capabilities, which will be broken down later."
Recently, this decomposition was exposed by the media. OPPO CEO's special assistant released an internal article "Some Thoughts on Building Core Technology", which proposed three major plans, including software development, cloud, and the "Mariana Plan" on chips.
The Mariana Trench is known as the deepest trench in the world, and OPPO used it to describe making "top-level chips" very difficult.
Recently, OPPO revealed to C114 that the matter of OPPO self-developed chips is indeed a fact. And the budget for self-developed chips is in the 50 billion previously planned.
OPPO stated, "Our ultimate goal of making chips is to serve our customers well. This is a long-term investment, not to compete with our partners. In addition, as our business becomes more diverse and international, only with strong technical ability can we cooperate better and better with partners to create products that are excellent in both hardware and software. "
At the same time, OPPO reiterated: "Qualcomm and MediaTek have always been partners that OPPO attaches special importance to. And in fact, making chips is actually a long-term preparation and awareness of OPPO and this will not change the current relationship with partners."
