Xiaomi’s new generation of processors exposed! The self-developed chip team has reached more than 1,000 people

On May 6, according to Wccftech reports, in order to reduce its dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek, Xiaomi began to accelerate the launch of self-developed SoC chips, and this upcoming self-developed mobile phone chip is named “Xring”. At present, Xiaomi’s self-developed chip R&D team has about 1,000 employees, and will operate independently from Xiaomi’s main company.

According to the whistleblower@Jukanlosreve he had seen the prototype of “Xring” at the end of March this year, and said that the SoC team does exist, and it operates as a new company outside of the independent parent company, and there is already a team of more than 1,000 people. @Jukanlosreve believes that if Xring is successful, it could encourage more companies to get involved, and even engineers who are currently working at larger companies may get better salary opportunities. At present, “cutting costs and improving efficiency” has been widely used in almost all industries, and the success of Xring will undoubtedly be a positive signal for the growth of the Xiaomi ecosystem.

However, according to Xinzhixun, @Jukanlosreve The statement that Xiaomi’s upcoming self-developed mobile phone chip is named “Xring” is not accurate, because this is only the English name of Xiaomi’s self-developed chip company, Shanghai Xuanjie Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Xuanjie”), not the name of the upcoming self-developed chip. Xuanjie was established as early as 2021 with a registered capital of up to 1.92 billion yuan, and the company’s general manager and executive director is Zeng Xuezhong, senior vice president of Xiaomi, who served as the CEO of domestic mobile phone chip manufacturer UNISOC before joining Xiaomi.

According to the company’s investigation, by the end of 2023, there will be 820 insured people in Xuanjie. In addition, Xuanjie was later incorporated into Beijing Xuanjie Technology Co., Ltd., which was established in October 2023, with a registered capital of up to 3 billion yuan.

In fact, as early as February 2017, Xiaomi officially released its first self-developed mobile phone chip surging S1, which was first equipped by Xiaomi 5C, becoming the fourth smartphone brand manufacturer in the world with self-developed mobile phone chips after Apple, Samsung, and Huawei at that time.

However, it is a pity that the surging S1 did not succeed in the market at that time due to its weak baseband capabilities (it does not support Unicom’s 3G and 4G network standards, nor does it support all the network standards of China Telecom). However, the research and development of the surging S2 also suffered many tape-out failures, which made Xiaomi temporarily abandon the research and development of mobile phone SoC. Subsequently, Xiaomi turned to the self-development of relatively simple peripheral chips such as ISP chips (surging C series) and power management chips (surging P series).

It was not until 2021 that Xiaomi established Xuanjie and restarted the research and development of self-developed mobile phone SoC chips.

According to previous reports, Xiaomi has also established a chip platform department under the organizational structure of the product department of the mobile phone department, appointed Qin Muyun as the head of the chip platform department, and reported to Li Jun, general manager of the product department. Qin Muyun previously worked at Qualcomm as senior director of product marketing at Qualcomm before joining Xiaomi.

According to the relevant revelations since last year, Xiaomi’s self-developed new generation of smartphone SoC chip is about to be completed, the chip is based on TSMC N4P process technology, using eight cores and three clusters of CPU architecture design, including Arm Cortex-X925 CPU super core, but also integrated Immortalis-G925 GPU, which is about the same as Snapdragon 8 Gen2. The baseband chip may use the 5G baseband chip of MediaTek or UNISOC plug-in.