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 have joined forces to jointly develop a 4nm chipset and a new development suggests that the first Xiaomi chipset from the collaboration will hit the market in early 2025.
The news comes from reliable tipsters Yogesh Brarwho shared some key insights about the upcoming Xiaomi chip. It will reportedly 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 that powered 2021 and 2022’s high-end devices.
This won’t be the first time Xiaomi has tried its hand at chipset development. In 2017, the brand launched its wed 5c smartphone with own in-house Ascent S1 chipset. The mid-range Xiaomi SoC was manufactured on a 28nm process and featured 8x Cortex A53 cores, half of which were clocked at 2.2GHz and the other half at 1.4GHz, alongside the Mali-T860 GPU.
Source (post on X.com)