There were some interesting announcements from the Oppo Inno Day event today to showcase the latest innovations developed over the past year. If last year MariSilicon X was shown as the first self-designed ISP chip, this year the MariSilicon Y chip was shown as their first stand-alone audio processing chip.
According to Oppo MariSilicon Y will solve the issue of unsatisfactory audio quality on smart devices due to not being able to stream lossless quality audio wirelessly. The chip uses the new URLC codec that enables bluetooth streaming up to 12 Mbps. With this lossless 24-bit/192 kHz audio can be streamed via bluetooth for the first time. Aku spatial is also supported by MariSilicon Y.
It is also equipped with an NPU with a processing capability of 590 GOPS. No audio chip has previously been equipped with its own NPU. With this smarter audio control complete with artificial intelligence support will become a reality. At this time the first device equipped with MariSilicon Y has not been announced but probably the Find N2 and the N2 Flip which will also be launched this evening. The article will be updated after this is confirmed later.