Oppo unveils its new MariSilicon Y chip which should equip its Oppo Find X6 and Find X6 Pro during its Ino Day. It is not a chip dedicated to photography, but a SoC specialized in sound.
Oppo has now accustomed us to its end-of-year event, Ino day, where the manufacturer unveils its latest technologies. The goal is not so much to impress as to make us salivate over their next generation of smartphones, the technologies presented in December generally being found in the next generation of Find X.
Last year, the manufacturer presented a chip, the MariSilicon X, an NPU dedicated to image processing which ended up on theOppo Find X5 Prol’Oppo Find X5 and theOppo Reno 8 Pro. This year, the manufacturer unveils this time, surprise, a chip dedicated to sound: the MariSlicon Y.
What is the interest of MariSilicon Y?
The MariSilicon Y is therefore the first chip to be used “N6RF processing technology”. You will probably tell us, this makes me a pretty leg “, but be aware that thanks to this addition, Oppo has been able to integrate a « nouveau pack Pro Bluetooth »capable, in theory, of increasing Bluetooth bandwidth by 50%“compared to the best performing Bluetooth SoCs on the market”, writes Oppo without specifying who the brand compares to. Recall that the codec Bluetooth audio by default, the SBC offers a bandwidth of 320 kbps. We can therefore count on a bandwidth offered thanks to the MariSilicon Y of 480 kbps.
In addition to this, the chip will integrate an exclusive codec, understanding thereby that it should only equip devices with the Oppo logo, or even perhaps on its partner brands, OnePlus and Realme in view of the group’s strategy. Its nickname: URLC.
In theory, all this allows it to transmit very high quality sound, namely 24 bits/192 kHz. We are therefore far beyond CD quality. The Chinese giant even touches the maximum speed offered by the streaming platforms current. The brand thus promises awireless connectivity with the same audio quality as a wired connectionand even evokes spatial audio. To do this, despite a bandwidth which remains limited and far from the 9 Mbps necessary for the transmission of such sampling, Oppo here uses artificial intelligence by integrating a dedicated neural processor.
Behind this novelty is the desire for the manufacturer to build its own ecosystem step by step. We find the same strategy at Samsung with its SSC codec on its Galaxy Buds 2 Pro.
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