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by Namidairo 888 days ago
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC

There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes it possible. (The main SoC is replaced with a ZXIC one, a ZTE subsidiary)