Xiaomi has been rumored to be working on its own SoC for quite some time now, and it looks like the company has now reached a major milestone
A new reference to Mydrive (Chinese media) suggests that Xiami has managed to successfully "design" one its new SoC for Smartphones, which is ready to be manufactured by the lithography method at 3nm.
This announcement was made by its chief economist Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology on BRTV – a state television network in China. Below we have the relevant video with the announcement he made himself, which is in Chinese of course, and which was posted by a user on platform of X.
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2. 是是今晚被炒，被老老改出最期的。但室全吃空了，热搜也态了，被説况嘴fake news... pic.twitter.com/JxC1Ji8kFw— ベック船长 macro strategy（公式号同名） (@yanbojack) October 20, 2024
Is Xiaomi's New SoC Ready for Smartphones?
The report does not provide us with some details about the CPU or GPU that are built into Xiaomi's SoC, but it only mentions that it's a chip that manufactured with the 3nm lithography method. It also doesn't tell us if Xiaomi used its hub TSMC, by Samsung or some other node to produce it.
However, the process “tape out” in silicon design means that the chip has now reached its final stage before being sent for manufacturing. In other words, Xiaomi has successfully completed the design phase and the chip is now ready to be manufactured at the sample level for quality control.
This of course does not mean that the SoC is yet ready for mass production or its use in a smartphone. Xiaomi will still need several months to have the time available to test the chip once it is manufactured in a sufficient number of samples by TSMC or Samsung.
If its initial performance is low, it may need Xiaomi in cooperation with TSMC for example, to modify the manufacturing process or even the design of the chip to improve it.
In case you didn't know, Xiaomi has already launched a smartphone with its own SoC entirely. We refer to We are 5C , which released the 2017which was equipped with Xiaomi's Pengpai (or Pinecone) S1 SoC, and which housed a 8-core processor at 28nm with big-little architecture and maximum clock speed at 2,2 GHz.
Xiaomi hasn't released another smartphone SoC since then, but has been developing some chips to control charging and battery management, as well as image signal processing with its series of Surge G, P and C chips respectively. For example, the Xiaomi 14Ultra uses them Surge P2 and G1 chips to improve charging performance and extend battery life.
This means that chip manufacturing and production is certainly not uncharted territory for Xiaomi, and it remains to be seen whether the company will ultimately be able to successfully develop and launch its next smartphone SoC, but whether it will also to compete with its SoCs with dignity Qualcomm and Mediatek in terms of performance.
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