According to foreign media news, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO has successfully developed a mobile processor prototype for smartphones, which is expected to be officially unveiled in 2024.
The news shows that OPPO's first self-developed mobile processor will be based on TSMC's 4nm process, with an 8-core CPU and a three-cluster design of 1+3+4, which may be a Cortex-X2 super core, 3 Cortex-A710 and 4 Cortex- A510. At the same time, it also has a built-in 10-core GPU and a new generation of MariSilicon NPU self-developed by OPPO.
In terms of performance, reports say that OPPO's smartphone processor is expected to catch up to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. In terms of communication baseband, OPPO may add third-party 5G baseband chips, or choose from Qualcomm, MediaTek, Ziguang Zhanrui and Samsung.