OpenAI has long been interested in getting into the hardware business. So far, the company behind ChatGPT has been linked to wearables, working on launching AI earbuds later this year or early 2027. But industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported on X over the weekend that OpenAI is working on building a smartphone in partnership with component-makers MediaTek, Qualcomm and Luxshare.
Kuo said MediaTek and Qualcomm would help design a smartphone chip for the device, while Luxshare would act as a co-design and manufacturing partner. Most premium Android phones coming out in 2026 will use either Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 or MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 chips, so it makes sense for OpenAI to tap the companies making processors for most of the top-end phones that come out every year.
For years, both MediaTek and Qualcomm have envisioned AI agents as the future of how people will use their
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