As a top-3 brand in terms of global smartphone sales, Xiaomi has been launching phones powered by chipsets from Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Shanghai-based Unisoc (formerly Speedtrum) for quite some time now. Earlier this year, reports claimed that Xiaomi and Unisoc had joined forces to co-develop a 4nm chipset, and a new development suggests that the first Xiaomi-branded chipset from this collaboration is set to launch in early 2025.
The news comes from a reliable informant Yogesh Brarwho shared some key information about the upcoming Xiaomi chip. It is said to be manufactured on TSMC’s 4nm N4P node and will feature a 5G modem developed by Unisoc. The SoC is expected to offer Snapdragon 8 Gen 1-level performance, which was Qualcomm’s flagship chip powering the high-end devices of 2021 and 2022.
This is not the first time that Xiaomi has ventured into chipset development. Back in 2017, the brand had launched its Mi 5c smartphone powered by its own Surge S1 chipset. Xiaomi’s mid-range SoC was manufactured on a 28nm process and featured 8 Cortex A53 cores, half of which were clocked at 2.2GHz and the other half at 1.4GHz alongside the Mali-T860 GPU.
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