Xiaomi and Oppo are two well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturers. Both the companies have dominated the entire smartphone market worldwide. Meanwhile, a new report claims these two are working on their own custom 5G smartphone chipsets.
Last week, a report alleged that Google is manufacturing its own chipset for its upcoming Pixel 6, which it is apparently developing in partnership with Samsung. And, if the new report from DigiTimes turns out to be true, Google isn’t the only brand that could ditch Qualcomm for its own mobile chipset this year.
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Both the companies are said to be developing their own sub-6GHz 5G chipsets, which could be introduced between late 2021 and early 2022. Moreover, the report declares that fabless chipmaker Unisoc also plans to take on Qualcomm and MediaTek with its own lineup of 5G mobile chips.
Aside from this, Xiaomi already has some experience with making smartphone chipsets. As it has released its own chipset, surging S1 in 2017, and a new custom image signal processor, Surge C1 at the mega launch event last month.
Whereas Oppo hasn’t made a custom chip yet, a report out of China had claimed last year that it was working together with its sister brands Realme and OnePlus on a “Mariana Plan” to develop its own processor.
By developing their own chips, Oppo and Xiaomi should be allowed to reduce their dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek. Nevertheless, we should not expect that they will be completely eliminated from the two major chip makers very soon.
