Xiaomi Announces Custom Chip to Rival Apple Silicon

[AlanBeyond]

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.

Yet the XRING O1 is better than Qualcomm 8 Elite in CPU, and better than A18 Pro in GPU, according to youtuber geekerwan who first predicted Switch 2's performance

 

[AlanBeyond]

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.

1.8GHz is only for the efficiency core X725, the performance cores X925 could hit 3.9GHz

 

[mazz0]

No mention of instruction set. I assume it's ARM, but it could be RISC-V (does Android run on RISC-V?).

 

[ilikewhey]

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

very ignorant and small minded take on the whole situation, if they collapse, we get dragged down just like how UBS, a european bank almost got folded by an american real estate market in 08.

for our economy sake, we don't want a collapse in chinese economy.

 

[Musocat]

"...the company still stressed its design achievement." More like its industrial espionage achievement lol.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

I assume it is pronounced like a "z"

Kinkzy?