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South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi refutes claims of using Arm-designed chip for XRing O1, highlights R&D effort
Xiaomi has clarified that its advanced 3-nanometre XRing O1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) is not a customised solution from Arm, pushing back against speculation as the Chinese smartphone maker seeks to design its own integrated circuits (ICs) in-house to rival industry leaders Apple Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies '[XRing O1 SoC] is not based on a complete solution provided by Arm, and claims about it being an Arm-customised chip are groundless,' Xiaomi said on Monday in a post to its official WeChat account. The company emphasised that its in-house team spent more than four years developing the 3-nm chip. The XRing O1 uses Arm's Cortex-X925, Cortex-A725 and Cortex-A520 cores, but the company has stressed that other parts of the chip were designed in-house. It did not use Arm's Compute Subsystems, a pre-validated, production-ready set of integrated hardware and software components meant to simplify design, according to Xiaomi. Among the different licences offered by Arm are options for modified chips that use Arm's Cortex cores, or licensing only Arm's instruction set architecture – similar to Apple, which designs the cores for its A- and M-series chips. Rumours swirled around which process Xiaomi was using when it was found that Arm's website described the Chinese firm as using 'custom silicon', which the company defines as ICs tailored to specific customer applications, distinct from general-purpose chips. Arm does not directly offer customised SoCs, and on Monday the UK-based company updated the page to say Xiaomi's chip was 'self-developed silicon' built on Armv9.2 Cortex central processing unit (CPU) cluster intellectual property (IP), Arm Immortalis graphics processing unit IP, and CoreLink Interconnect system IP. 'With the XRing team's excellent back-end and system-level design, the XRing O1 delivers fantastic performance and efficiency,' Arm said.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi flexes chip prowess as new XRing O1 bests Apple's A18 Pro in certain tests
Xiaomi on Thursday unveiled its new XRing O1 integrated circuit (IC) – designed to power the company's next-generation smartphones and tablets – that it claims bested the performance of Apple 's latest A18 Pro chip in certain benchmark tests. 'I have confidence to say that the XRing O1 is very strong,' Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun said on Thursday at an event in Beijing , where the firm's in-house-designed system-on-a-chip (SoC) was launched, alongside the 15S Pro smartphone and Pad 7 Ultra. Lei attributed the XRing O1's performance to its system architecture and production using an advanced 3-nanometre lithography process, which enabled Xiaomi to pack 19 billion transistors on the SoC – a chip density on par with Apple's A18 series. The XRing O1 features a so-called 10-core design, in which an IC has 10 individual processing units – or cores – capable of executing instructions. At Thursday's event, Lei present data showing the XRing O1 matching Apple's A18 Pro chip in single-core and multi-core tests, and surpassing the US-designed chip 'by a large margin' in other benchmark tests. The XRing O1's launch marked the culmination of Xiaomi's four-year-long journey to develop an advanced SoC that delivers top-tier performance, using Apple's A-series chips as its benchmark.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi founder flexes chip prowess as new XRing O1 bests Apple's A18 Pro in certain tests
Xiaomi on Thursday unveiled its new XRing O1 integrated circuit (IC) – designed to power the company's next-generation smartphones and tablets – that it claims bested the performance of Apple 's latest A18 Pro chip in certain benchmark tests. 'I have confidence to say that the XRing O1 is very strong,' Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun said on Thursday at an event in Beijing , where the firm's in-house-designed system-on-a-chip (SoC) was launched, alongside the 15S Pro smartphone and Pad 7 Ultra. Lei attributed the XRing O1's performance to its system architecture and production using an advanced 3-nanometre lithography process, which enabled Xiaomi to pack 19 billion transistors on the SoC – a chip density on par with Apple's A18 series. The XRing O1 features a so-called 10-core design, in which an IC has 10 individual processing units – or cores – capable of executing instructions. At Thursday's event, Lei present data showing the XRing O1 matching Apple's A18 Pro chip in single-core and multi-core tests, and surpassing the US-designed chip 'by a large margin' in other benchmark tests. The XRing O1's launch marked the culmination of Xiaomi's four-year-long journey to develop an advanced SoC that delivers top-tier performance, using Apple's A-series chips as its benchmark.
South China Morning Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Tech war: Xiaomi's new 3-nanometre chip takes on rival products from Apple, Qualcomm
In a Tuesday post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo , Lei confirmed local media reports that the XRing O1 was based on the 3-nanometre lithography process in semiconductor manufacturing. He also said the new integrated circuit (IC) would be installed in the company's new 15S Pro smartphone and the Pad 7 Ultra tablet. Xiaomi did not provide more information about the XRing O1, especially which contract semiconductor manufacturer was producing the locally designed mobile SoC. Semiconductor foundries in mainland China are not able to mass produce 3-nm chips owing to US tech restrictions Still, Xiaomi has become the fourth tech company in the world to design a 3-nm mobile SoC for mass production after Apple Qualcomm and MediaTek The Beijing-based smartphone giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
South China Morning Post
19-05-2025
- Automotive
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi stands as one of China's biggest semiconductor investors, founder Lei Jun says
Smartphone giant Xiaomi is one of China's top three investors in semiconductor development on the back of a 10-year, 50 billion yuan (US$6.9 billion) spending programme that it rolled out in 2021, according to company founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun Advertisement In a Monday post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo , Lei wrote that Xiaomi achieved the milestone as of April after spending 13.5 billion yuan and deploying 2,500 research-and-development (R&D) staff to work on its XRing O1 system-on-a-chip (SoC). The new integrated circuit (IC) is expected to become China's first 3-nanometre chip and the country's most powerful smartphone SoC, according to a report by Chinese media outlet ICsmart, which cited sources. 'Chips [represent] the key race for us to make breakthroughs in hardcore technology,' Lei wrote. His post also confirmed that the XRing O1 was based on the 3-nm lithography process in semiconductor manufacturing, but did not reveal which chip foundry was contracted to build the new IC. Advertisement Xiaomi is expected to host an event on Thursday to launch the XRing O1, along with new smartphones and tablets, as well as to preview the company's first electric sports utility vehicle, the YU7
