Xiaomi Announces Custom Chip to Rival Apple Silicon

[MacRumors]

Chinese Apple competitor Xiaomi today announced the "Xring O1," a custom 3nm chip designed to rival Apple silicon (via Bloomberg).

The company plans to switch its devices to custom silicon chips, just like Apple. The Xring O1 chip will be included in three devices to begin with, including the Xiaomi Tablet 7 Ultra–a newly announced 14-inch tablet.

Like the latest-generation Apple silicon chips, the Xring O1 is made with a 3nm fabrication process. The company explicitly said that it asked itself:

We also want to become one of the top chipmakers, with our phones targeting iPhones, can our chips also be compared against those of Apple's?

The Xring O1 will lag behind Apple's latest chips in some respects, such as processor clock speed, but the company still stressed its design achievement.

At a special event to announce the chip and tablet in Beijing, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said that the company plans to invest 200 billion yuan ($27.8 billion) in research and development over the next five years. At least $7 billion will be invested in developing and enhancing its own chip technology over the next decade.

Article Link: Xiaomi Announces Custom Chip to Rival Apple Silicon

 

[I7guy]

Qualcomm better watch its back! The race for the supreme silicon is on!

 

[DHagan4755]

Good luck to them. As always competition is healthy.

 

[Trusteft]

Xring?
Sounds kinky.

 

[WilliApple]

I’m so excited for M5 now, I’m hoping Apple runs away even tho I am good with the my M4’s right now. This just means whenever I upgrade again, it will be BIGGGG

 

[mattopotamus]

I’m so excited for M5 now, I’m hoping Apple runs away even tho I am good with the my M4’s right now. This just means whenever I upgrade again, it will be BIGGGG

M4 were good gains. I expect the M5 to be minimal improvements and the M6 to bring have another big leap.

 

[haunebu]

Qualcomm better watch its back! The race for the supreme silicon is on!

A few days ago, Xiaomi announced that it'll be using the next Snapdragon 8 in its flagship devices and signed a 15-year agreement to continue doing so with Qualcomm. Xiaomi's in-house design is not for the high-end.

 

[jsavvy]

I hope these are original designs.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

None of these are designed to rival Apple. Silicon and macOS/iOS, et are their own one of one ecosystem.

 

[TechWhisperer]

Perfect! Xiaomi bringing the heat. Nothing like competition to wake up the sleeping giant.

 

[cjboffoli97]

Good luck to them. As always competition is healthy.

If you think what is article describes is actually 'competition' then you don't understand how the CCP operates.

 

[purush]

How are they able to produce on 3 nm process. This is not available in China.

 

[Fuzzball84]

I’m so excited for M5 now, I’m hoping Apple runs away even tho I am good with the my M4’s right now. This just means whenever I upgrade again, it will be BIGGGG

I’m buzzing for M6 to be honest. But M10 is likely to be eye popping fast.

Then again I might wait for M20 as that will just be so far ahead it will be like wondering what work I’ll be doing since AI will be doing it all.

Decisions, decisions.

 

[TruthAboveAllElse]

Xring?
Sounds kinky.

I assume it is pronounced like a "z"

 

[Fuzzball84]

I hope these are original designs.

I hope so too, ever since the wheel emerged in ancient times it’s just been copied across the globe.

It runs super smooth and at great speeds. People just had to copy it.

I hate it when that happens.

 

[Fuzzball84]

I assume it is pronounced like a "z"

The zring can sting if pushed to the limit.

I hope the thermals on this SoC are good.

Things are getting too hot for my liking.

 

[clayj]

Enjoy having all of your data sent back to the CCP Red Army...

 

[masterhiggins]

Good luck to them. As always competition is healthy.

I wish no luck to China. I hope their economy collapses like a dying star.

 

[mlayer]

Xiaomi apparently has access to TSMC’s 3 nm node, and they aren’t on the naughty list like Huawei so they have a leg up on their Chinese competitors. The chip runs fairly slow (1.8 GHz) but has 10 cores according to Geekbench. This is for relevance and control on Xiaomi’s part. I doubt that Xiaomi is willing to pay extra to TSMC (and deal with yield issues) for the early 2 nm tapeout or other bleeding edge processes.

 

[rgwebb]

Only better than current gen in spots and less than half a year from M5 chips.

 

[sunapple]

Saw a bit on the Daily Show with John Stewart the other day where a writer promoted his book about the manufacturing power of China and how Apple’s monstrous investments to produce iPhone basically set it all up. Here you can see, Xiaomi has phones, cars and now chips. Teach a man to fish…

 

[ilikewhey]

If you think what is article describes is actually 'competition' then you don't understand how the CCP operates.

and how do they operate

 

[sw1tcher]

I’m so excited for M5 now, I’m hoping Apple runs away even tho I am good with the my M4’s right now. This just means whenever I upgrade again, it will be BIGGGG

By the time you decide to upgrade (to M6 or M7?), the size of transistors should be smaller than the M4 chips 3nm size, so technically it will be SMALLLLL(er), no? 😂

 

[miric]

I hope these are original designs.

"Chinese" and "original" aren't compatible terms 😂.

 

[SactoGuy18]

But Xiaomi does a lot of non-standard things on their cellphones. Now, if this chip was in an Oppo, ViVo or OnePlus cellphone, that would be a really different story.