Oppo goes custom with its new 6nm MariSilicon X imaging NPU with 20-bit HDR pipeline

Smartphone manufacturer Oppo has announced it's developed its own in-house nerual processing unit (NPU) to put inside its future mobile devices. This new 6nm chipset, which Oppo is calling MariSilicon X, includes a the NPU, an image signal processor (ISP) and a custom memory architecture, all of which work together to improve the imaging capabilities of mobile photography. Oppo says the MariSilicon X NPU, which is only a small portion of the entire chipset required to power a smartphone, can pro...