Xiaomi, Oppo plan to produce in-house chipsets by end of 2021

According to a report in Digitimes, Xiaomi and Oppo are working on in-house mobile chipsets that they plan to launch by the end of 2021, or early 2022.

Xiaomi and Oppo would be competing with Qualcomm and Mediatek, the two leading chipset manufacturers, whose products they currently use. Xiaomi had earlier produced a chipset in 2017 called the Surge S1.

The move comes as Chinese companies look to lessen dependence on ties with the west for chipset manufacturing, after Huawei had to stop developing their Kirin chipsets with TSMC after US government sanctions.