It’s actually Xiaomi’s new daring chipset for smartphones.
How many chipset manufacturers do you know of? Maybe 2? Or perhaps, even 3? There’s going to be six now (yes, HiSilicon and Exynos count). Who is the new challenger on the horizon?
Fellow techies and gents, meet Xiaomi’s contender against MediaTek and Qualcomm, the XRing 01. The chipset will make its debut on the Xiaomi 15S Pro and initial benchmark shows promise on its performance.
The curiously new chip shows great benchmark scores, on par with the MediaTek Dimensity 9400. The chipset was created by Xiaomi to ensure they have full control over their phone’s hardware and software, and to rely less on both MediaTek and Qualcomm.
The Xiaomi 15S Pro, with code numbers 25042PN24C, will be replacing the Qualcomm-powered Xiaomi 15 Pro and it will be revealed globally on May 22. The internal code and Geekbench’s listing shows that the chip has eight cores consisting of 2 super cores at 3.9GHz, 4 big cores at 3.4GHz, and 4 efficiency cores clocked at 1.89GHz and 1.8GHz respectively. It also shows that Xiaomi turned to TSMC for the fabrication. The XRing 01 is effectively a 3nm chip with an ARM-based architecture.
According to GSMArena’s test, the XRing 01 sits comfortably at the middle in the flagship chip race, lagging slightly behind the Snapdragon 8 Elite but also slightly ahead of the Dimensity 9400. Even then, these numbers are barely noticeable in the real world, so as long it can run games at a sweet 120fps and at ultra high settings with no problems or heating, it should perform well.
Now then, we’re just waiting for power users to review and tear this thing apart. By that, we mean, see if its heat management is sustainable or not and whether it would be optimized on launch.
Source: GSMArena, Retail News Asia
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