Oppo just announced its MariSilicon NPU based on the 6nm manufacturing process. Its main goal is to improve the quality of photos and videos as well as further expand the feature set of its cameras. The first phones to adopt it is going to be the next-generation Find X series due to be announced in Q1 2022.
The MariSilicon X has an ISP so Oppo won’t be relying on the ISP found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. It supports 20-bit, 120db dynamic range in images, real-time RAW processing in 4K videos. Using the NPU, an AI can apply different algorithms for noise reduction, better color…