On May 12, a news broke out in the technology circle, OPPO announced the termination of the ZEKU business, not to make chips, the news immediately shocked the whole network. This decision is very abrupt, because in April, the media rumored that Sun Chengkun, the former head of the AI direction of the overseas team of the domestic GPU unicorn "Wallen Technology", will join OPPO ZEKU as the minister of the NPU chip center.
It's been so many days since then, but the fervor of the story has not diminished at all, at least in mainland China, with all kinds of voices buzzing on the internet. I've taken a general look at the points of contention on the internet which are also relatively polarized. Some people sing ZEKU's praises, saying that OPPO is capable of making chips, but it's just a bad time; while some professional upkeepers stand from a critical point of view, rejecting OPPO's core-making strategy, saying that this was a wrong decision from the beginning.
So is that really the case? How do we look at OPPO's failure to build a core? How difficult is it for cell phone manufacturers to build a core, and what warnings and inspirations can OPPO bring to us by terminating the core-making process? Today we will talk about this topic. Okay, let's start now.
