The competitiveness of mid- and high-end equipment is increasing as manufacturers' self-developed chips are increasingly distributed

As competition in the smartphone market gradually shifts to the high-end, it becomes particularly important for mobile phone manufacturers to possess unique core competitiveness.

In this regard, manufacturers have basically chosen a similar breakthrough direction, that is, to conduct self-developed chip products. At present, well-known manufacturers in the market have basically brought their own chip products.

As relevant technologies gradually mature, more related product application revelations have now emerged.

A revelation from blogger @数码闲聊站 mentioned that "truly self-developed or highly self-developed technologies and chips will be deployed to multiple models in due course to evenly distribute the R&D costs. For example, Xiaomi's Pengpai P1 has been deployed to Redmi, and more models will use it later. Blue Factory's V1 ISP was adapted to multiple models when it was first released, and iterative products are on the way, and V1 will also be deployed to more product lines. Green Factory's second MariSilicon X phone is on the way, and Ouga series will also use it later."

According to the leak, in order to better spread the R&D costs, mobile phone manufacturers will gradually bring in self-developed chips after the first launch. In other words, non-high-end products of various brands may also be equipped with self-developed chips in the future.

Based on the existing information, although manufacturers have started research and development of chip products, for most brands, the first products they bring are not core processor products.

It is reported that at the launch event at the end of December 2021, Xiaomi 12 Pro was equipped with the self-developed charging chip Xiaomi Pengpai P1. Some time after this technology was officially introduced to everyone, the new Redmi K50 Pro is also equipped with the Pengpai P1 charging chip, which supports 120W fairy second charging with a built-in 5000mAh battery.

In other words, Xiaomi's Surge P1 charging chip has been transferred to the Redmi brand, and may be installed in more Xiaomi models in the future.

In addition, the recently released OPPO Find X5 series is also equipped with the MariaSilicon X self-developed chip based on TSMC's 6nm process. It is an imaging-specific NPU chip designed and developed independently by OPPO.

The latest news shows that OPPO will launch other products equipped with this chip in the future. In the future, multiple brand series under OPPO may also be equipped with this self-developed chip.