Blue Factory's first self-developed chip was named "V 1", and vivo executives called X70 series the first application.

From the previous "mask aligner" to today's "chip shortage", the word "chip" has been paid more and more attention, especially by the smart phone industry, which ranks in the forefront in purchasing volume. Faced with the late start of the domestic chip industry, insufficient technology accumulation, coupled with overseas technical restrictions and other unfavorable factors, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have not given up, but are more motivated! Vivo, which has recently reported the news of self-developed chips, is one of them.

This morning, Hu Baishan, executive vice president of vivo, said in an interview with the media that the first self-developed image chip of vivo was named "V 1", which will be used in the vivo X70 series to be released in September.

It is understood that the "V 1" chip is an integrated circuit chip customized for image experience. In the design of the whole image system, the "V 1" chip can simultaneously serve various needs of users in image applications such as preview and video recording.

In fact, for this chip, vivo has also done a lot of "preheating" work in advance. Not long ago, some netizens found that vivo recruited a large number of talents in the chip industry with high salaries on multiple recruitment platforms, including chip engineers, chip directors and chip technology planning experts. Most of their responsibilities focus on ISP architecture design, research and development, debugging and other chip-related technical content. Although the official has not disclosed relevant projects before, this move has made it clear that vivo will have a "big move" in the chip field.

Just when everyone was talking about the recruitment information, the well-known digital reporter "Digital Chat Station" exposed another story and directly exposed the suspected "uninstalled self-developed chip". From the details of the picture, the words "vivo”Logo on the packaging seal and" V 1 "in the silk-screen Logo also directly correspond to the" V 1 "chip news announced today. In addition, from the quantity specification in the figure, it is obvious that the "V 1" chip has been mass-produced.

In addition, a vivo self-developed chip named "Yue Ying" was exposed by the media some time ago. Although information about this chip is limited, some netizens speculate that Yue Ying is probably a customized chip for image processing. Not surprisingly, Yue Ying is the same product as the "V 1" chip officially announced today.

Seeing this, some people may ask: "Why do mobile phone manufacturers have to make chips?" The answer is simple: I want to have more say. Today, with the continuous expansion of smart phone functions, if you want to truly realize your ideas, you must make a fuss about the chip. The traditional "public version" ISP chip alone can no longer meet the customization needs of mobile phone manufacturers. Therefore, independent research and development of ISP chips has become the only way for many domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

At present, the official has made it clear that the first self-developed chip "V 1" of vivo will be installed in the vivo X70 series released in September, which can be regarded as an end to the previous online information transmission. However, it should be noted that this "V 1" chip is not the end, but a brand new beginning. According to relevant data, vivo will invest heavily in hiring more talents in the chip industry in the future. Only in the direction of ISP, the annual salary of chip director is 6.5438+0.8 million. Maybe what we see is just the tip of the iceberg?

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