Xiaomi’s new smartphone chip is here, and this one could be a Tensor beater

TL;DR Xiaomi has fully revealed the XRING 01, which is its first custom smartphone processor in several years. The new chipset has a powerful deca-core CPU and a cutting-edge Arm Immortalis-G925 MC16 GPU. The first devices with the XRING 01 are the Xiaomi 15s Pro smartphone and the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra tablet. Xiaomi confirmed last week that it would announce a new custom smartphone chipset. Now, the day has arrived, and the company has fully revealed the XRING 01 processor. It turns out that this is a monster of a chipset, starting with the deca-core CPU. Xiaomi’s processor sports two Cortex-X925 CPU cores clocked at 3.9GHz, four Cortex-A725 cores running at 3.4GHz, two Cortex-A725 cores at 1.9GHz, and two Cortex-A520 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. The two big cores are fed by 2MB of L2 cache each, the Cortex-A725 cores pack 1MB of L2 cache each, while the two little cores share 512KB of L2 cache. This makes for an impressive layout compared to the MediaTek Dimensity 9400, which offers o ... Read full article.