China’s Oppo decides to shut down chip development unit
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China's smartphone maker Oppo has said that it will shut down its semiconductor division and cease development of its own chips due to the gloomy smartphone market and uncertainties in the global economy, Nikkei Asia reported.
Oppo on Friday said that it will "cease the operation" of Zeku, which is the company's flagship chip development unit and stop the development of its own chips. The closure will affect several chips in its signature Marisilicon series, including its AI-enabled image signal processor (ISP) and its Bluetooth chipset, as per the news report.
It will also impact an upcoming smartphone processor that tapped the same cutting-edge chip production tech Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co uses to make chips for Apple's iPhone. In a statement to Nikkei Asia, Oppo ...