Xiaomi unveiled its in-house AI mobile processor, called the Xring O3 system-on-a-chip, according to a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Monday, which is expected to compete with its peers in the semiconductor space such as Qualcomm and MediaTek Inc.
The chip is manufactured via a 3-nanometer (Nm) fabrication process as per a post on WeChat by Lei Jun, the company's founder. This is similar to the tech used in Apple's latest A19 Pro chips and more advanced than its rival Huawei's chips. The firm has partnered with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) to make the chip, as per Reuters.
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The aforementioned manufacturing process will allow Xiaomi to pack more transistors into the same amount of silicon, which is expected to make the chip work faster and consume less power.
This chip is expected to power Xiaomi's 18 Fold smartphone and Pad 9 Pro Max tablet with both gadgets set to debut in China in September.
The company also launched the Xring 0100, which is a 6 Nm chip that is meant to speed up the efficiency and speed of AI and machine learning tasks, acting as an 'AI accelerator'. The chip stacks its memory directly on its processor leading to 1.22 TB/s of near-memory bandwidth. This will be used to power the AI used in phones, cars and robots.
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The firm also launched the Xring D100 designed to power AI driving features in cars. It has a 20-core processor and can work with up to 160GB of shared memory, and is powerful enough to run sizeable AI models directly in the vehicle in lieu of sending data to the cloud.
The work on the chip has been completed with commercial availability to be a reality in 2027. The firm displayed all three chips running within its 'AI Cube', a mini-PC prototype that can run AI models of up to 120B parameters.
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