Xiaomi unveils three in-house chips for phones, AI and cars

Xiaomi on Sunday launched three in-house chipsets spanning smartphones, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, marking the company's most ambitious foray yet into custom silicon design.

The announcements came during a text-and-image live briefing led by Zhu Dan, head of Xiaomi's Xring chip division, 459 days after the company released its first-generation mobile processor. The new lineup includes the flagship Xring O3 mobile processor, the AI-oriented Xring O100 and the Xring D100 for intelligent driving systems.investing+1

Xring O3 Targets Flagship Mobile Performance

The Xring O3 is a 3nm smartphone processor manufactured by TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited ↗ 1.78%, according to Reuters. Xiaomi claims the 10-core chip achieved an AnTuTu score of 5.22 million points, which would make it the first mobile SoC to break the five-million-point barrier.reuters+1

The chip features a 16-core GPU, support for LPDDR6 memory with bandwidth of up to 113.8GB/s, and AI performance rated at 200 TOPS. Xiaomi has confirmed the Xring O3 will power the Xiaomi 18 Fold and Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max, both scheduled for launch in China in September.nokiamob+1

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ↗ 2.18% said the chip should support "hardware premiumization through deeper XRING-HyperOS integration".investing

AI and Automotive Chips Extend Xiaomi's Reach

The Xring O100 is a 6nm AI accelerator built on a near-memory architecture designed to reduce data-movement bottlenecks, delivering bandwidth of up to 1.22Tbps. Xiaomi expects it to support on-device AI processing across phones, connected cars and robotics.finance.yahoo+2

The Xring D100 is what Xiaomi calls China's first 3nm AI processor for autonomous driving. It includes a 20-core CPU and 16-core NPU, supports up to 160GB of unified memory, and can run AI models with up to 200 billion parameters locally. Both the O100 and D100 have completed development, with commercial deployment of the D100 planned for 2027.nokiamob+2

Strategic Context

The triple-chip launch arrives as Xiaomi navigates margin pressure from elevated memory-chip prices. The company's second-quarter adjusted net profit fell 42.6 percent year-on-year to 6.2 billion yuan, with smartphone gross margins squeezed to 8.5 percent. CEO Lei Jun first signaled the chip offensive on August 19 alongside a review of those quarterly results.technode+1

Goldman Sachs noted the vertical integration strategy could also drive cost savings in Xiaomi's electric vehicle division, where cumulative deliveries of the SU7 sedan crossed 500,000 units on August 17. Whether Xiaomi can translate benchmark claims into sustained commercial performance remains the central question heading into September.ad-hoc-news+1