After experiencing several public opinion storms, Xiaomi held a new product launch event on May 22nd, where its self-developed Xuanjie O1 was officially unveiled. A total of three products equipped with Xuanjie O1 were showcased: mobile phones, tablets, and watches. This marks that the Xuanjie O1 has officially entered Xiaomi's own mid-to-high-end product line.
It is worth mentioning that on the very night after the press conference, Xuanjie O1 was featured on CCTV-13 News Channel, with the news headline "China's First 3nm Advanced Process Chip Released".
This highly anticipated self-developed chip adopts the industry's most advanced second-generation 3nm manufacturing process. Within a 109mm² area, it integrates over 19 billion transistors, ranking among the top in the industry in terms of transistor scale.
The CPU part adopts a 10-core 4-cluster architecture, and the main frequency of the two Cortex-X925 super-large cores is further exceeded to 3.9GHz, which can better meet the concurrent explosive performance requirements such as application startup. In terms of the GPU, the latest generation Immortalis-G925 is adopted and equipped with a 16-core super-large scale. The Antutu Lab score can reach 3 million points, steadily entering the first echelon of flagship mobile phone chips.
Lei Jun said that when the Xuanjie project was initiated, it set very high goals: the latest process technology, flagship-level transistor scale, and first-tier performance and energy efficiency. For this reason, Xiaomi has formulated a long-term and continuous investment plan: at least ten years of investment, at least 50 billion yuan, to proceed steadily and step by step.
Some analyses point out that the current global mobile processor market size has exceeded hundreds of billions of US dollars, but the three major players, Mediatek, Apple and Qualcomm, account for about 80% of the market share. Xiaomi's entry not only breaks the convention of terminal manufacturers relying on purchased chips, but also may form a differentiated competitive edge through hardware ecosystem collaboration (such as the in-depth optimization of the Paper OS).
Data from market Research firm Counterpoint Research shows that in the fourth quarter of 2024, the top six suppliers of AP/SoC chips for global smartphones were Mediatek, Apple, Qualcomm, Unisoc, and hisilicon, with shares of 34%, 23%, 21%, 14%, 4%, and 3% respectively.
However, another perspective holds that the yield rate and capacity constraints of the 3nm process still pose risks, and the market gap left by the restrictions on Huawei's Kirin chips has not been fully filled. Therefore, Xiaomi needs to strike a balance between the speed of technological iteration and the stability of its supply chain.
On May 20th, Qualcomm announced that it had signed a brand-new multi-year cooperation agreement with Xiaomi. According to the agreement, Xiaomi's flagship smartphones will continue to be equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 series mobile platform, covering multiple product generations, and are planned to be sold in the Chinese and global markets. Qualcomm said that Xiaomi will be one of the first manufacturers to adopt the next-generation Snapdragon 8 series flagship mobile platform later this year.
It is reported that in the future, Qualcomm and Xiaomi will continue to join hands and continuously promote technological progress in various edge-side device fields including smart phones, automobiles, AR/VR glasses, wearable devices, and tablet computers.
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