Xiaomi has announced that it is making its own smartphone chip, called the XRING 01. The chip has apparently been in the works for more than ten years, and is set to launch later this month, although no specific date was given.
The company’s co-founder and CEO Lei Jun personally made the announcement on his Weibo account, confirming the rumours of the in-house chip. While he offered no further details, recent leaks suggest that the chip is built on a 4nm process through TSMC.
The XRING 01 will also allegedly feature a CPU with a high-performance Cortex-X925 core clocked at 3.2 GHz backed by three Cortex-A725 cores at 2.6 GHz, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores at 2.0 GHz. The leaks also say the chip will include an Imagination Technologies IMG DXT72 GPU clocked at 1.3 GHz.
This means that it likely won’t match the Snapdragon 8 Elite or Dimensity 9400 in terms of performance. While there has been no official word on which device will be the first to include the XRING 01, rumours suggest that the company’s self-developed smartphone chip will make its debut with the Xiaomi 15s.
The development of an in-house chip means that Xiaomi is moving away from Qualcomm and MediaTek, following in the footsteps of companies like Huawei and Google. The company does seem keen on relying more on internal resources, as evidenced by the recent development of its own AI model.
(Source: Lei Jun, Digital Chat Station via GizmoChina)
