The shortage of chip is challenging every tech company to start thinking outside the box and start creating the new future. As Benjamin Franklin once said the best way to predict the future is to create it.
At the recent annual innovation event hosted in Shenzhen, the Chinese smartphone giant Oppo revealed its first in-house chipset.
The so called MariSilicon X chip announced, named after the Mariana Trench is a neural processing unit that aims to boost photo and video performance through machine learning and artificial intellect (AI).
This latest move adds Oppo to a list of smartphone makers that are designing their own chips, such as Apple. The MariSilicon project, headed by Qualcomm veteran Jiang Bo, started only in 2019.
The ongoing global chip shortage will not affect the production of MariSilicon X, Jiang told the press at the event. The company (Oppo) also unveiled the third generation of its self-developed smart glasses, dubbing it an “assisted reality” device instead of an augmented reality one.
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