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The smartphone brand OPPO, with the debut of its first AI chip, will invest heavily in chip development with a team of “several dozen hundred” engineers in the future, the company said on Wednesday. OPPO released an NPU, or Neural network Processing Unit, augmented reality glasses and its first foldable smartphone Find N to demonstrate its latest business expansion.
During the OPPO INNO DAY 2021, OPPO released its first self-developed NPU chip, called MariSilicon X, which can improve photography and video using AI calculations. Chip development is tough because of technical challenges and huge investment. “But OPPO is ready to explore this path with a decade-long blueprint and a team of several hundred engineers,” said Chen Mingyong, founder and chief executive of OPPO.