Xiaomi Joins Google Pixel In Making Its Own Smartphone Chip

Xiaomi has just announced that it will make its own smartphone chip – the XRING 01 – which will debut in future devices.

Following rumors, Xiaomi today announced that it will launch its very own chip for smartphones later this month. The “XRING 01” is a chip that the company has apparently been working on for over 10 years now.

Details about the chip are scarce so far, but GizmoChina points to recent leaks that suggest the chip is built on a 4nm process through TSMC. The chip supposedly has a 1+3+4 layout and should lag just a bit behind Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 in terms of raw horsepower, sounding familiar to Google’s work with Tensor chips.

Google is perhaps the most notable example of an Android brand that ditched chips from the two big names, Qualcomm and MediaTek, to rely on its own designs for the Tensor chips found in Pixel devices. Huawei similarly makes its own chips, though for very different reasons, and Samsung also has its Exynos lineup that is used in a number of Galaxy devices.

It’s thought that Xiaomi’s XRING 01 chip will debut in the Xiaomi 15s in the not-too-distant future.