Building your own processor and reducing reliance on manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek saves money. Big money. Google has been doing this since the Pixel 6, but it’s cost it a few years of criticism. Why? No one has ever done a better job on Android than TSMC, and betting on Qualcomm is a winning bet.
According to leaks, Xiaomi will work on its own processor, a processor with similar power to the best Qualcomm processors from three years ago and whose implementation aroused many doubts.
A processor with somewhat limited power. The leaked information tells us about a processor based on TSMC’s four-nanometer manufacturing process. It is important to emphasize that by 2025 we could start seeing the first processors with two-nanometer processes. This year, 2024, we already have three-nanometer chips.
The performance will be similar to that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, which gives life to the top-end of 2021.
An alliance with some giants – not so giants –While the node on which the processor will be based is from TSMC, the leak suggests that the 5G modem will be manufactured by Unisoc, one of the most popular manufacturers of entry-level mobile processors.
This raises questions about who will make the GPU, a key component that will largely determine which category the processor will fall into. Regardless, it seems like the main purpose of this processor will be to save money.
There are doubts about what phones will be by 2025. First half of 2025. This is the date when phones with Xiaomi’s first processor are expected. The company has been characterized for years by something very special: offering the best processors on the market, even in low-cost mobiles like the POCO family.
Switching from the latest Qualcomm processor to its own processor seems unlikely, but Google had already done so at the time, despite the criticism. In the case of Xiaomi, given its sales success, it would perhaps make sense to introduce this type of processor in mid-range to upper-range mobile phones, such as the most powerful Redmi.
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