This week, OPPO announced the latest technological progress in AI, performance, communication and privacy security, including the first handset/hands-free dual-mode satellite call for smart phones, the first 7 billion-parameter large model for end-side applications, the tidal architecture that debuted and many other cutting-edge technologies.
The brand-new technology portfolio announced this time will fully implement the next-generation flagship product Find X7 series, set a brand-new technical benchmark for the flagship mobile phone in 2024, and bring consumers an innovative flagship experience that refreshes standards.
Release handset/hands-free dual-mode satellite call, leading the evolution of satellite interphone to satellite mobile phone.
OPPO released the satellite antenna pattern control technology, which will realize the innovative experience of handset/hands-free dual-mode satellite call for the next generation flagship. This technology can dynamically adjust the radiation pattern of satellite antenna, make the antenna beam aim at the satellite dynamically, and ensure that users can keep connected and talk with the satellite in both handset and hands-free conversation postures.
Lu Bao, a terminal antenna expert in OPPO hardware engineering, said: "We are very happy to realize the latest breakthrough in satellite antenna technology in the next generation flagship product for the first time through continuous research and accumulation and using a series of innovative technologies and patents. Through satellite communication technology and fully upgraded antenna, smart communication and near-field communication technology, we expect users to get a reliable communication experience in the whole scene. "
The traditional satellite communication mobile phone adopts single antenna design, and it can’t meet the demand of transmitting power in the head-to-hand state. It can only support the use of hands-free mode, which will lead to problems such as unclear communication in harsh weather environment such as strong wind.
OPPO’s brand-new handset/handsfree dual-mode satellite call makes the mobile phone satellite call experience evolve from "satellite intercom mode" to "satellite phone mode" which accords with users’ intuition for the first time, helping users to obtain more efficient communication efficiency in extreme environments.
The industry’s first end-to-end application of the 7 billion parameter big model, the big model mobile phone entered the fast lane.
Facing the rapid development of large-scale model technology, OPPO officially launched the large-scale model of self-training in ODC — — After AndesGPT, it was also announced that the industry’s first 7 billion-parameter model of end-side application will be realized on Find X7 series.
Through the model compression such as high-precision 4-4bit quantization, the acceleration of reasoning engine and the hardware acceleration mode of deep cooperation with chip platform,For the first time, it brings a complete 7 billion-parameter large model to the mobile phone terminal, completely changing the way of using the mobile phone terminal AI.
Zhang Jun, general manager of OPPO Software Innovation Center, said: "OPPO’s self-trained and personalized big model — — AndesGPT contains many versions of parameters from one billion to one hundred billion, with abundant knowledge, infinite memory and good use of tools. The technical architecture of end-cloud collaboration can support diversified application scenarios.
With the cooperation of various technologies, we will also apply a large language model with 7 billion parameters and a generative visual model to the Find X7 series for the first time, which will bring a local AI experience with faster response, stronger processing ability and higher generation quality while ensuring the privacy and safety of users. "
Thanks to the complete ANDES GPT 7 billion-parameter large language model applied by end-side, Find X7 series will bring the next generation AI experience such as natural language understanding, text content summary and call voice summary.
Compared with other models on the same platform, oppoandesgpt 7 billion parameter large language model can bring 20 times faster response in the generation of 200-word prefix, and 2.5 times faster for the generation of 2000-word prefix.
At the same time, OPPO’s AndesGPT can achieve the maximum number of abstract words of 14,000, which is 3.5 times that of other models on the same platform. In terms of generation quality, compared with the 1 billion parameter model, the ANDES GPT 7 billion parameter large language model has a higher "IQ" understanding ability, which brings a more complete and accurate record to the call summarization ability.
OPPO also announced the AndesGPT generative visual model based on self-training, which will bring image semantic understanding, subject recognition and segmentation, image extension and generation capabilities to Find X7 series, and bring a new functional experience of subject elimination and real-life redrawing. AndesGPT’s generative visual mode brings a wider range of image experience to mobile phones.
Compared with other cloud models on the same platform, AndesGPT can only support human body recognition. ANDES GPT not only supports the recognition and segmentation of more than 120 kinds of subjects, but also can realize hair-level segmentation and multi-agent separation of up to six, as well as the filling and natural generation of super-large-area images, which greatly expands the application scope and practicability of the generative visual model.
In addition, the end-to-end application of AndesGPT generative visual model also brings 60% shorter generation time and higher generation accuracy compared with other models on the same platform, bringing users a more readily available generative visual experience.
Original tidal architecture, breaking through the bottleneck of chip energy efficiency
Facing the more stringent demand of flagship end users for chip energy efficiency, OPPO first announced the exclusive tidal architecture technology. As a technology stack of chip hardware and software integration, Tide Architecture has built a set of chip-level performance solutions from scene recognition, computing power demand, cache matching and computing power scheduling, which solves the problems of memory and computing separation and chip scheduling faced by mobile platforms and realizes the maximum energy efficiency performance of flagship chips.
Hong Hansheng, director of software technology planning and architecture design of OPPO, said: "Tidal architecture is a collection of chip soft and hard fusion technologies developed by OPPO, and it is a chip optimization technology created by a group of people who know chips.
In the past, from the first-level cache to the system cache has always been the technical area of chip design companies. Through the tidal architecture OPPO, it broke through the technical boundary and mastered the use of the third-level cache to the system cache. With the chip-level capabilities in no man’s land and deep water, it brought a great leap in computing efficiency to the flagship products. "
Through in-depth joint research and development with chip manufacturers, OPPO has penetrated the tidal architecture into the on-chip cache system that traditional mobile phone manufacturers can’t use finely, and jointly designed cache partition, dynamic ratio of CPU/GPU and fast channel scheme of clean data with chip manufacturers.
Through the tidal architecture, OPPO realizes the dynamic matching of system-level cache for the first time.Dynamically allocate system-level cache resources for CPU and GPU in real time according to computational tasks and rendering tasks. Through this unique technology, the tidal architecture can achieve an average energy efficiency gain of 8%.
In addition, the tidal architecture also supports a brand-new scene-level computing power and power consumption analysis model on the chip, which can realize the dynamic computing power and power consumption evaluation and analysis based on a single scene, and dynamically disassemble each computing task to the computing power distribution of each computing unit on the chip in real time, find out the best energy efficiency combination, and achieve more competitive energy efficiency performance for diverse user applications.
By accurately and dynamically scheduling the computing power of GPU, Tide Architecture can also control the display delay excellently, and realize an unprecedented continuous and smooth experience for Android flagship. In the test of simulating users to start applications 320 times a day, the standard deviation of Find X7 equipped with tidal architecture is only 11ms, which has achieved a more lasting and stable smooth performance than the same platform and other platforms.
Hong Hansheng also revealed that OPPO has begun to deeply participate in the design of the next generation of Tianqi chips and explore more possibilities of tidal architecture.
Super signal engineering, solving network problems in the whole scene
During the communication meeting, OPPO also announced a set of self-developed communication technology solutions — — Super signal engineering, through antenna technology, intelligent communication and near-field communication, enhances the full-scene communication experience of Find X7 series from outdoor to urban and from urban to indoor.
OPPO brings the highest performance four-antenna architecture to the next generation flagship product through antenna miniaturization technology and spatial distribution optimization of low-frequency four-antennas. By combining low ECC and high isolation technology, OPPO can further improve the throughput of ultra-low frequency four antennas and reduce network delay.
Facing the influence of the grip on the signal strength, OPPO specially designed the low-frequency antenna, built the signal model of OPPO’s self-developed handheld state, improved the signal condition of the mobile phone in the handheld state, and realized the signal strength enhancement of up to 7dB and an average of 3dB.
OPPO’s unique intelligent communication technology utilizes the intelligent computing service provided by Andean intelligent cloud, the industry-leading intelligent fusion link technology and the cross-layer data acceleration capability to realize the acceleration strategy of the combination of Wi-Fi and cellular multi-networks.
In addition, based on communication QoS link technology, OPPO accelerates conference data and improves conference delay through the establishment of 5G boutique private networks of three major operators.
Smart communication technology also brings AI network prediction technology to Find X7 series. By integrating AI technology, communication technology and sensing technology, Find X7 series can predict signals for different spatial forms, intelligently recommend the most appropriate internet use strategy, and provide better performance in scenarios such as short video jam of subway and optimal network probability of switching from home to home.
Through intelligent communication technology, Find X7 series will also support excellent cross-end unified communication. Through Pantanal trust chain technology, Find X7 can realize fast and non-inductive connection between mobile phone and tablet, and based on the self-developed virtual data transmission channel, the tablet has mobile phone network communication capability, and users can make calls, send and receive short messages and access the Internet with data.
Super Signal Engineering will also bring a brand-new near-field communication experience to Find X7. Using the through-the-wall mode of near-field communication, Find X7 dynamically selects the optimal transmission and reception time slots through active noise identification, and improves the anti-interference ability. Combined with radio frequency enhancement technology, Find X7 improves the uplink and downlink rates.
Through the high throughput mode, Find X7 series can use the brand-new bandwidth of 160Mhz for mobile phone moving transmission, and can complete the handling of 180GB content in less than 15 minutes.
Using the dual-antenna packet loss prevention technology, Find X7 series can also bring lower Wi-Fi network delay. Using Wi-Fi& Bluetooth full acceleration 3.0 technology, Find X7 series can solve the data transmission impact of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in traditional solutions. Compared with other products, this technology helps Find X7 series to reduce the game delay of nearly 150ms and 18 live broadcasts.
Protect security and privacy from software to hardware.
While promoting innovation in AI, performance and communication technology, OPPO always attaches great importance to users’ privacy security, and is committed to building a comprehensive privacy protection system for users through full-link application, data management and control, and innovative functions combining software and hardware.
In order to further enhance users’ privacy protection, OPPO has brought a security solution based on the second-level security chip with the highest security level in the mobile phone industry, which will provide the terminal with the highest chip-level privacy protection.
Compared with the traditional software security scheme, the chip-level encryption method can separate the management and authorization switch of sensitive rights from the operating system and lock it into the hardware layer of the security chip, which is managed by the chip-level security subsystem.
Based on the chip-level privacy security scheme, OPPO has implemented an innovative VIP mode in the folding flagship FindN3. With OPPO’s unique three-stage physical switch, it can quickly and intuitively turn off sensitive permissions such as microphone, camera and positioning, and encrypt user privacy information at hardware level.
