We all know that Xiaomi has been making efforts to develop its own smartphone chip. Until recently, the news existed only in leaks and rumors — but not anymore.
Xiaomi has officially confirmed the existence of its self-developed chip, along with its launch timeline.
It’s called XRING O1.
Lei Jun, the co-founder and CEO of Xiaomi, personally made the announcement on Weibo. Xiaomi’s first smartphone chip will be named “XRING O1” and is set to be unveiled in late May.
While that’s pretty much everything we know from official sources, tipster Digital Chat Station has shed some light on the silicon.
Apparently, the chip has been ten years in the making. And now that it’s official, Xiaomi becomes the fourth smartphone brand globally—and the second in China—to develop its own smartphone SoC. The chip is reportedly manufactured on a node smaller than 5nm.
What can you expect?
According to a previous report, the silicon will be manufactured on TSMC’s N4P node, which is a 4nm process.
Specs-wise, the XRING O1 is rumored to feature an octa-core CPU with a 1+3+4 configuration. At the top is one high-performance Cortex-X925 core clocked at 3.2GHz, backed by three Cortex-A725 cores at 2.6GHz, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores running at 2.0GHz. On paper, it sounds close to what we’ve seen in upper-tier chips from MediaTek this year.
Graphics duties will allegedly be handled by an Imagination Technologies IMG DXT72 GPU clocked at 1.3GHz. Reportedly, it can outperform the Adreno 740 found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Based on current leaks, the XRING O1 probably won’t go head-to-head with the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite or Dimensity 9400. But it seems to sit somewhere near the flagship tier.
More interesting than performance, though, is what this chip means strategically. Xiaomi has been dependent on Qualcomm and MediaTek for years.
An in-house chip, even if it’s just used in one or two flagship models, could give the company more control over everything from hardware integration to software optimization.
That’s the playbook Huawei used before sanctions hit, and it’s the same path Google and Samsung have been experimenting with.
The chip is rumored to debut on the Xiaomi 15s.
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