Oppo gives up on building custom chips for its flagship phones

Oppo’s Zeku division was set up in 2019 and carried about 200 patents in its Shanghai division. Like Apple, Oppo started making its own co-processors for imaging and other smartphone components but had not successfully launched its own SoC to get away from relying on other companies for the most significant chip in the device.

Last year, the US issued sweeping restrictions on chip sales to China and other countries in the…