It has long been no secret that Xiaomi engineers are working on creating a proprietary mobile processor, codenamed xring, which, according to the source, will be officially unveiled at the end of May.
At the same time, the xring project was recently headed by Qin Muyun, a former Qualcomm top manager, whose experience will provide Xiaomi and its new chip development team with reliable guidance (details).
With its own processor, Xiaomi will compete with such major chip manufacturers as Qualcomm of the United States and MediaTek of Taiwan, gradually reducing dependence on them.
This step shows Xiaomi’s broader goal to become a leader in global mobile technology, and building its own processors is an important part of this vision.
For the production of the xring chipset, Xiaomi specialists chose the N4P 4nm process technology from TSMC – they decided not to use the advanced 3nm technology in order to avoid potential limitations that Huawei, for example, faced. This will allow Xiaomi to avoid any sanctions and supply chain issues.
In addition, xring is credited with one Arm Cortex-X925 super core clocked at up to 3.2 GHz, three Cortex-A725 cores running at 2.6GHz, and four Cortex-A520 cores running at 2.0GHz.
The Imagination IMG DXT72 graphics processor with a clock speed of 1.3 GHz will be responsible for graphics in Xiaomi’s proprietary single-chip system, and early rumors suggest that the xring’s performance will be at the level of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
According to preliminary data, Xiaomi’s first smartphone based on its own processor will be the Xiaomi 15S Pro, which is expected to premiere in the summer.