Earlier this year, the first information began to appear on the Internet that Xiaomi engineers were developing their own processor for smartphones, which has decent enough specifications and was codenamed Xring.
And today, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun officially announced a proprietary single-chip system named Xring O1, and this completely coincided with recent rumors that the presentation of the chipset will take place in May.
“Let me share the news with you: an independently developed and engineered Xiaomi processor for mobile devices called XRING O1 will be released at the end of May,” Lei Jun said on his Weibo page.
This modest but important statement confirms Xiaomi’s rise to a leading position among smartphone manufacturers that can develop processors for themselves, along with Apple, Samsung and Google.
Despite the fact that the technical specifications of the Xring O1 have not yet been disclosed, a lot is already known about it – the device performance will be at the level of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and it will include the following key elements:
- 1 super-core Arm Cortex-X925 with a frequency of up to 3.2 GHz
- 3 Arm Cortex-A725 cores with a frequency of 2.6 GHz
- 4 Cores Arm Cortex-A520 with 2.0GHz frequency
- GPU Imagination IMG DXT72 with a frequency of 1.3 GHz
- MediaTek T90 5G modem (T900)
The Xring O1 SoC is expected to be manufactured in factories of Taiwanese contract manufacturer TSMC using the proven N4P 4nm process technology.
There is also information that the first Xiaomi smartphone to be tried on by the Xring processor will be the Xiaomi 15S Pro, codenamed dijun, which is expected to premiere closer to autumn.