OPPO is indeed necessary to have a self-developed mobile phone chip, but this does not mean that OPPO will definitely do 100%, because there are many insurmountable problems.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Core Intelligence” ( ID: icsmart), the author of the core wisdom of the wave of the sword.
Recently, according to industry media reports, according to the chip industry headhunt, OPPO has successively released SoC design engineers, chip digital circuit design engineers and other positions, and dug a lot of grassroots engineers from companies such as Spreadtrum and MediaTek. This also makes the outside world speculate that OPPO is developing its own mobile phone chip.
(Figure: DVD era more than 20 years ago, OPPO found MediaTek’s custom decoder chip)
How many years have you laid out your mobile phone chip?
In fact, as early as May 2017 after Xiaomi released its first self-developed mobile phone chip 澎湃S1, there were rumors that OPPO has entered the chip field.
The information revealed at the time showed that as the OPPO, the behind-the-scenes of the big scorpion Yong Ping, and OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong have successively invested in a chip company – Suzhou Xiongli Technology.
Information shows that Xiongli Technology’s business includes designing and selling high-performance, low-power VLSI chips, IP and embedded system platforms in the data network and IoT space. The company specializes in the development and sales of network packet intelligent search processors.
And Xiongli Technology has considerable research and development capabilities. According to reports, the “ISE” series of network search processor chips independently developed by Xiongli Technology has broken the international monopoly of similar TCAM chips by American companies, becoming the only company in China with the ability to develop and mass produce such chips. Semiconductor companies; products are in the world’s leading position in important indicators such as power consumption, capacity and speed. ISE products have been widely used in core routers, Layer 3 switches, network taps, and other network security devices.
The business registration information of Xiongli Technology at that time showed that the shareholders of Suzhou Xiongli Technology were Xiong Bing and Suzhou Slow Win Consulting Co., Ltd. Although Duan Yongping did not appear in the shareholder information, the business registration information at that time showed that Duan Yongping was a director of Suzhou Xiongli Technology. And the official website of Xiongli TechnologyIt is explicitly mentioned that Xiongli Technology was established by Duan Yongping, who is known as “China’s Buffett”. Obviously, this also means that Duan Yongping is also one of the shareholders of Xiongli Technology.
In addition, the industrial and commercial information of Suzhou Slow Win Consulting Co., Ltd., the second largest shareholder of Xiongli Technology, showed that the company was 100% controlled by OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong.
Although the latest information shows that the second largest shareholder of Xiongli Technology has become a natural person Luo Futai, Suzhou Slow Win Consulting Co., Ltd. has also become 100% controlled by Luo Futai, but in fact, Luo Futai may be just a proxy. . According to the data, Luo Futai has served as a senior executive of OPPO and vivo related companies such as Chengdu Opal Mobile Communications, Guangdong Wanpras Mobile Communications, and BBK Education Electronics.
In addition, at the end of 2017, OPPO also registered and established Shanghai Haosheng Communication Technology Co., Ltd. in Shanghai. In September 2018, according to the information, Yusheng Communications incorporated “integrated circuit chip design and service” into its business projects.
The information shows that Yusheng Communication is located in the Xuhui Greenland Center in Shanghai, adjacent to the MediaTek Shanghai office. In China’s largest integrated circuit industry cluster, Shanghai, which has hundreds of thousands of integrated circuit practitioners, provides sufficient talent resources for OPPO. According to social security public information, by the end of 2018, Yu Sheng correspondent