Interesting information has appeared online today that Qin Muyun, who previously worked at Qualcomm as a senior director of product marketing, joined Xiaomi, where he headed the chip platform development department.
Recall that Xiaomi ventured into developing its own smartphone chips in 2017, releasing the Surge S1 single-chip system, an 8-core solution based on a 28nm process. This chipset debuted in the Xiaomi 5C smartphone, but the model failed to gain momentum and the Surge S1 line quietly disappeared from the spotlight.
Despite the initial hitch, Xiaomi continues its journey towards smaller, specialized chips. Over the past few years, the company has released several self-developed components that serve various aspects of the smartphone.:
- Surge C Image Processing Chips
- Surge P chips for fast charging control
- Surge G chips for power management
- Surge T chips to improve signal processor performance
- Surge D chips for controlling the operation of the display
These chips did not replace the main processors, but they helped Xiaomi gradually increase its hardware capabilities. Now, it seems, the company has confidence that it will be able to create its own top-level processor.
Currently, it is already known that Xiaomi engineers are working on their own single-chip system codenamed xring, which, according to rumors, will receive the future Xiaomi 15S Pro named dijun.
In addition, there is information that the conditional Surge S2 will receive one computing super core Arm Cortex-X3, three productive cores Cortex-A715, as well as a quartet of cores Cortex-A510. The IMG CXT 48-1536 controller will be responsible for graphics.
However, there is practically no official information about this, but Xiaomi’s desire to create its own chip and reduce dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek deserves every praise.