Surging ahead to fit in the league of top OEM’s manufacturing their own in-house chipsets, Xiaomi has finally officially unwrapped its first own smartphone processor named Surge S1. With Surge S1, Xiaomi has become the second Chinese smartphone manufacturer after Huawei to produce its own processing units.
Xiaomi’s Surge S1 chipset will have 8 cores with 4 x Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and 4 x Cortex A53 cores at 1.4GHz. The combination of four powerful and four efficient cores will give a perfect balance of performance and power efficiency, Xiaomi claims.
Xiaomi's first independent SoC goes live, Pinecone Surging S1 (not sure if this is the right translation): 2.2 GHz 8-core A53, Mali-T860MP4. pic.twitter.com/lBJGsBkfYs
— krispitech (@krispitech) February 28, 2017
The chip will be paired with ARM Mali-T860 GPU and come with AFBC, ASTC image compression tech support as well as Vulkan standard support. Making it more efficient, Xiaomi has built it on a 28nm HPC+ process. Other features include VoLTE, 14-bit dual ISP and 32-bit DSP support.
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The efficiency of Xiaomi Surge S1 processor can be gauged from its AnTuTu score which places it on top of Snapdragon 625 and Helio P2o chipsets.
The first Xiaomi phone to carry the in-house Surging S1 processor is Mi 5C which was also released today.
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