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- Xiaomi is reportedly working on a custom smartphone chip that could be comparable to 2022’s flagship silicon.
- The Chinese smartphone maker will apparently reveal the processor in the first half of 2025.
Apple, Samsung, and HUAWEI are the only smartphone makers currently offering fully custom processors, while Google also offers semi-custom Tensor chips in partnership with Samsung. We previously heard that Xiaomi could join this club with a new smartphone chip, and it looks like we’ve got some apparent details.
Leaker Yogesh Brar has posted several purported details about the new Xiaomi smartphone processor. For starters, it’s believed the chipset is based on TSMC’s second-generation 4nm process (N4P) and has similar performance figures as 2022’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. That would mean the processor is a long way behind current flagship chips in terms of horsepower, nevermind next-generation silicon.