China’s Smartphone Leader Xiaomi is about to launch their first home-grown mobile processor branded 'Xring' in May
On April 17, 2025, Patently Apple posted a report titled “While Apple was the number one smartphone maker Globally in Q1-25, they landed in fifth place in China.” The number one smartphone maker in China in Q1-25 was Xiaomi. Xiaomi now intends to make their own processor to control the technology in their future phones so that they could further differentiate their phones from competitors using Qualcomm chips.
Xiaomi is set to launch its first domestically developed mobile processor, the Xring. The processor is poised to be officially launched in late May. The move is an important step for Xiaomi to become more self-sufficient in the smartphone sector.
Qin Muyun, a former Qualcomm executive, spearheaded the Xring project. His background brings Xiaomi and its new chip design team solid leadership and guidance. Xiaomi will compete head-to-head with large chipmakers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek through the Xring.
Xiaomi used TSMC’s 4nm N4P process to produce the chip to avoid potential restrictions and keep Xiaomi free from sanctions across the globe and supply chain issues.
Also, the Xring processor comes with eight cores. At its core is a high-intensity Cortex-X925 core with a clock speed of 3.2GHz. It is supported by three Cortex-A725 cores operating at 2.6GHz and four Cortex-A520 operating at 2.0GHz. This combination provides a solid mix of performance and efficiency.
Additional details regarding the Xring chip will be revealed at its launch event in May. For more, read the full report by Gizchina.
In other Xiaomi news, the company unveiled a new reasoning AI model developed in-house. The open-source MiMo model has 7 billion parameters and outperformed OpenAI’s o1-mini and Alibaba Group Holding’s QwQ-32B-Preview, part of the Qwen series of models, in math reasoning and coding, Xiaomi said in a statement. For more on this, read the full South China Morning Post (SCMP) report.