Xiaomi To Introduce Its Flagship "smartphone" Chip At The End Of May 2025

Chinese technology company Xiaomi has entered the chip manufacturing industry following its competitors such as Apple, Google, Huawei, and Samsung to be able to produce its smartphone chips independently. 

Xiaomi is known to be starting this by introducing its flagship smartphone chip at the end of May 2025 and introducing it as Xring 01 which is built on 3nm architecture. 

Quoted from the Sams Mobile report, Monday, Xring 01 was mentioned by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun last week and now the existence of the chip is further strengthened by the latest information. 

The latest information shows that the chip was developed using ARM architecture and made by TSMC on the second generation 3nm process and has more than 19 billion transistors. 

Its performance is predicted to surpass the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is much better than most people expected. 

Xring 01 was developed for four years with a research and development cost of around 13.5 billion US dollars and involved as many as 2500 chip development teams. 

While the Xring 01 is Xiaomi’s first flagship chip, it’s not its first in-house chip. Its first chip was the Surge S1, an entry-level chip that debuted in 2017 with the Mi 5C. 

The company then announced the Surge S2 at MWC 2018 and was expected to debut with the Mi 6X. However, those plans were later scrapped, and the Mi 6X uses the Snapdragon 660. 

Leaked benchmarks of the Xring 01 show it scoring 3,119 points in Geekbench 6’s single-core CPU performance test and 9,673 points in its multi-core CPU performance test. That’s as good as the Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm’s current flagship chip. 

The Xring 01’s performance is also faster than Samsung’s Exynos 2400, which is a 4nm chip launched last year and is the fastest smartphone chip ever released by the South Korean company. 

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