As a top-3 brand in terms of global smartphone shipments, Xiaomi has been launching phones with chipsets from Qualcomm, MediaTek and Shanghai-based Unisoc (formerly Speedtrum) for a while now. Earlier this year reports claimed that Xiaomi and Unisoc had joined forces to co-develop a 4nm chipset and a new development suggests the first Xiaomi-branded chipset from the collaboration is set to launch in early 2025.
The news comes from reliable tipster Yogesh Brar, who shared some key insights into the upcoming Xiaomi chip. It will reportedly be fabbed 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 won’t be the first time Xiaomi has tried its hand in developing chipsets. Back in 2017, the brand launched its Mi 5c smartphone featuring its own in-house Surge S1 chipset. The midrange Xiaomi SoC was fabbed on a 28nm process and featured 8x Cortex A53 cores, half of them clocked at 2.2 GHz and the other half at 1.4 GHz alongside the Mali-T860 GPU.
Source (post on X.com)
