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China’s Xiaomi commits $6.9 billion to in-house chips

soAsian

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Key Points
  • - Xiaomi is set to unveil on Thursday the Xring O1 processor designed for its flagship smartphones.
  • - Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC that the company will continue to supply Xiaomi with chips.
  • - Xiaomi will invest at least 50 billion yuan ($6.9 billion) over the next 10 years to develop its own chips, the company’s CEO Lei Jun said.
BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 19: In this photo illustration, the logo of Xiaomi's XRing O1 chipset is seen on May 19, 2025 in Beijing, China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced on the evening of May 15 that the company's self-developed smartphone SoC, XRING 01, will be officially launched in late May. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

In this photo illustration, the logo of Xiaomi’s XRing O1 chipset is seen on May 19, 2025 in Beijing, China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced on the evening of May 15 that the company’s self-developed smartphone SoC, XRING 01, will be officially launched in late May.
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images


 
No mentioning who and where the chip is fabricated? If truly 3nm process, tsmc?
Rumors suggest it is being fabricated by TSMC, as its transistor count falls below the 30-billion-transistor limit imposed by the U.S. government.

This seems plausible to me. Intel 3 doesn't currently have major customers like Xiaomi, Samsung's yield is still low, and if SMIC does have a 3nm process, their top priority would likely be Huawei.
 
TSMC N3. Xiaomi has been using TSMC since 28nm but they still buy QCOM SOCs. Kind of like Samsung. MediaTek recently taped out a TSMC N2 SoC skipping Intel 18A for now.
Yes, the presentation slide indicates in Chinese that it is a second-generation 3nm process, which corresponds to N3E—TSMC's second-generation 3nm node following N3B. Intel 3, on the other hand, does not have a second generation.
 
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