Following Huawei and Xiaomi, Meizu also started developing mid-to-high-end mobile phone chips with investment from Alibaba.

Meizu's new flagship PRO 6 Plus uses Samsung's Exynos 8890, but Qualcomm is preventing Samsung from selling the Orion chip, which is almost equivalent to cutting off the processor source for Meizu's high-end flagship. On the other hand, MediaTek X30 is now in a difficult situation of mass production due to its overly radical technology!

PRO 6 Plus is equipped with Samsung's annual flagship processor chip Exynos 8890, which is built with the second-generation 14nm FinFET process, has eight cores, A72 architecture; the graphics processor GPU is Mali T-880 MP12. PRO6 Plus is equipped with up to 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Judging from the parameters, the performance of this PRO 6 Plus can be regarded as the first echelon of domestic products.

What is certain is that Texas Instruments has extensive experience in designing mobile phone processors. Its SoCs are stable, compatible, and have reasonable heat and volume control. With these advantages, Texas Instruments has also gained a lot in the mobile phone processor market.

The famous Motorola Milestone, Nokia N9, BlackBerry Z10, Samsung Galaxy S and other star products at that time all used TI's OMAP series chips.

Early market support enabled Texas Instruments to advance its mobile phone SoC to the OMAP5 series. This was the last generation of mobile phone SoC launched by TI and the first time TI adopted the new dual-core architecture of Cortex-A15. However, the market response was ultimately not as good as Qualcomm's quad-core APQ8064 of the same period, which resulted in almost no mobile phone using this product being launched.

Meizu and Texas Instruments are going to make processors in Zhuhai... To be precise, they should be working on it now.

I remember how awesome Texas Instruments processors were back then!

Among domestic manufacturers, Huawei is the best at making its own mobile phone chips. Starting from K3V2, Huawei's Kirin series has come step by step and achieved great success, especially the unexpected popularity of Mate 7 and the super performance of Kirin960 equipped with Mate 9 released this year, which not only improved Huawei's competitiveness but also ensured supply. The success of Huawei's strategy has made domestic manufacturers want to follow suit.

I hope that domestic chip manufacturers can also flourish and let the whole world remember Made in China!

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