Xiaomi is revving up its chip-making efforts again, after putting them on hold last year. Insiders claim the company is working on a new system-on-chip, or SoC, designed to balance performance and power management. This chip will be built using TSMC’s 4-nanometer N4P technology, which could help keep production costs down.
The new chip is expected to feature an 8-core CPU, with a mix of high-performance and power-efficient cores. The lineup includes:
- 1 x Arm Cortex X925 core, clocked at up to 3.2 GHz, for heavy-duty tasks
- 3 x Arm Cortex A725 cores, clocked at up to 2.6 GHz, for general use
- 4 x Arm Cortex A520 cores, clocked at up to 2.0 GHz, for power-saving
On the graphics side, the chip is rumored to use an IMG DXT72 GPU from Imagination Technologies, running at 1.3 GHz. This GPU is faster than the Adreno 740 found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mid-range chip.
Xiaomi might also develop its own image signal processing (ISP) and 5G modem chips, but could outsource the digital signal processing (DSP) to another company like MediaTek, Synopsys, or Huawei.
The first phone to use this new chip is likely to be the Xiaomi 15S, a mid-range device expected to launch in 2025.
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