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Forbes
3 days ago
- Forbes
Xiaomi's In-House Chip Gives The Pad 7 Ultra Flagship Power
Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra Ben Sin A few months after launching two excellent tablets powered by Qualcomm silicon, Xiaomi has launched an even higher tier Pad 7 Ultra that is running on its in-house chipset, the XRing O1. Fabricated on 3nm TSMC processing, Xiaomi's chip features a 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU, with architecture that differs slightly from the way Qualcomm and MediaTek build silicon. For example, a 10-core CPU is more than what any mobile silicon has used, and Xiaomi says the chip switches between the two ARM Cortex cores to get maximum power while staying as efficient as possible. A render of the XRing O1 silicon released by Xiaomi Xiaomi I've been testing the Pad 7 Ultra for the past few days, putting it through its paces as a machine for work (I am writing this article on the tablet) and play (I watched Game 7 of the NBA Finals while juggling through various social media apps on the tablet), and I am very impressed. Whether it's real-world performance or benchmark numbers, the XRing O1 chip performs at a high level similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite. In fact, in a 20 minute stress test in the app 3DMark, the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra with Xiaomi silicon scored almost as high as the OnePlus Pad 3 running on Qualcomm's best chip, while being more efficient and more stable (see screenshot below). Scores on the 20 minute Wild Life Extreme Stress Test conducted by the app 3DMark. Xiaomi's XRing O1 on the left, and OnePlus Pad 3 on the right Ben Sin I even edited and published an entire YouTube video with the tablet, using the app LumaFusion. While performance wasn't as fast or zippy as doing the same task on a new iPad Pro running Final Cut Pro, I still managed to finish editing the 10-minute video and rendering it in five and a half minutes. I highlighted the process in the video below. So after a series of tests, it appears Xiaomi's XRing O1 is indeed powerful enough to be considered a flagship silicon in 2025, and able to go toe to toe with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite. As for the rest of the tablet, there's a lot to like too. The tablet features a gorgeous 14-inch OLED display with an antireflective coating that prevents glare and reflections. Getting up to 1600 nits in brightness, it is a beautiful panel to look at whether indoor or out. The 14-inch OLED screen Ben Sin Pad 7 Ultra Ben Sin The tablet weighs about 609g or about 1.3lbs, and measure just 5.1mm thick. The body is crafted out of aluminum, and houses a 12,000 mAh battery inside that can be charged at 120W speed with the included charger. With a tablet this big, you will want to pair it with a keyboard, and Xiaomi has a very premium one that unfortunately, looks and feels like a direct knockoff of Apple's Magic Keyboard. Xiaomi's keyboard Ben Sin The Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra keyboard looks an awful lot like the Magic Keyboard Ben Sin From the way the keyboard props up the tablet, to the hinge design, to the aluminum base that wraps around the keys, it is nearly identical to Apple's Magic Keyboard. I wish Xiaomi had changed up something, even a different paint job. But, once you get over the lack of originality, the keyboard is tremendous. Keys have excellent travel of nearly 1.5mm and are evenly spaced. The trackpad is also the best trackpad I've tested among Android tablets -- precise and with satisfying haptics. The Pad 7 Ultra Ben Sin Xiaomi's multitasking system is also excellent -- you can run apps in split screen or resizable floating windows, making it an excellent work machine. This tablet is only sold in China for now, retailing at 5,700 yuan ($793) to 6,700 yuan ($933). This is for 12GB+256GB storage and 16GB+1TB storage, respectively. The Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra is a tremendous feat of engineering showing Xiaomi is able to produce high level hardware, including the silicon.
South China Morning Post
27-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi refutes claims of using Arm-designed chip for XRing O1, highlights R&D effort
Xiaomi has clarified that its advanced 3-nanometre XRing O1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) is not a customised solution from Arm, pushing back against speculation as the Chinese smartphone maker seeks to design its own integrated circuits (ICs) in-house to rival industry leaders Apple Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies '[XRing O1 SoC] is not based on a complete solution provided by Arm, and claims about it being an Arm-customised chip are groundless,' Xiaomi said on Monday in a post to its official WeChat account. The company emphasised that its in-house team spent more than four years developing the 3-nm chip. The XRing O1 uses Arm's Cortex-X925, Cortex-A725 and Cortex-A520 cores, but the company has stressed that other parts of the chip were designed in-house. It did not use Arm's Compute Subsystems, a pre-validated, production-ready set of integrated hardware and software components meant to simplify design, according to Xiaomi. Among the different licences offered by Arm are options for modified chips that use Arm's Cortex cores, or licensing only Arm's instruction set architecture – similar to Apple, which designs the cores for its A- and M-series chips. Rumours swirled around which process Xiaomi was using when it was found that Arm's website described the Chinese firm as using 'custom silicon', which the company defines as ICs tailored to specific customer applications, distinct from general-purpose chips. Arm does not directly offer customised SoCs, and on Monday the UK-based company updated the page to say Xiaomi's chip was 'self-developed silicon' built on Armv9.2 Cortex central processing unit (CPU) cluster intellectual property (IP), Arm Immortalis graphics processing unit IP, and CoreLink Interconnect system IP. 'With the XRing team's excellent back-end and system-level design, the XRing O1 delivers fantastic performance and efficiency,' Arm said.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi flexes chip prowess as new XRing O1 bests Apple's A18 Pro in certain tests
Xiaomi on Thursday unveiled its new XRing O1 integrated circuit (IC) – designed to power the company's next-generation smartphones and tablets – that it claims bested the performance of Apple 's latest A18 Pro chip in certain benchmark tests. 'I have confidence to say that the XRing O1 is very strong,' Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun said on Thursday at an event in Beijing , where the firm's in-house-designed system-on-a-chip (SoC) was launched, alongside the 15S Pro smartphone and Pad 7 Ultra. Lei attributed the XRing O1's performance to its system architecture and production using an advanced 3-nanometre lithography process, which enabled Xiaomi to pack 19 billion transistors on the SoC – a chip density on par with Apple's A18 series. The XRing O1 features a so-called 10-core design, in which an IC has 10 individual processing units – or cores – capable of executing instructions. At Thursday's event, Lei present data showing the XRing O1 matching Apple's A18 Pro chip in single-core and multi-core tests, and surpassing the US-designed chip 'by a large margin' in other benchmark tests. The XRing O1's launch marked the culmination of Xiaomi's four-year-long journey to develop an advanced SoC that delivers top-tier performance, using Apple's A-series chips as its benchmark.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xiaomi founder flexes chip prowess as new XRing O1 bests Apple's A18 Pro in certain tests
Xiaomi on Thursday unveiled its new XRing O1 integrated circuit (IC) – designed to power the company's next-generation smartphones and tablets – that it claims bested the performance of Apple 's latest A18 Pro chip in certain benchmark tests. 'I have confidence to say that the XRing O1 is very strong,' Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun said on Thursday at an event in Beijing , where the firm's in-house-designed system-on-a-chip (SoC) was launched, alongside the 15S Pro smartphone and Pad 7 Ultra. Lei attributed the XRing O1's performance to its system architecture and production using an advanced 3-nanometre lithography process, which enabled Xiaomi to pack 19 billion transistors on the SoC – a chip density on par with Apple's A18 series. The XRing O1 features a so-called 10-core design, in which an IC has 10 individual processing units – or cores – capable of executing instructions. At Thursday's event, Lei present data showing the XRing O1 matching Apple's A18 Pro chip in single-core and multi-core tests, and surpassing the US-designed chip 'by a large margin' in other benchmark tests. The XRing O1's launch marked the culmination of Xiaomi's four-year-long journey to develop an advanced SoC that delivers top-tier performance, using Apple's A-series chips as its benchmark.
South China Morning Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Tech war: Xiaomi's new 3-nanometre chip takes on rival products from Apple, Qualcomm
In a Tuesday post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo , Lei confirmed local media reports that the XRing O1 was based on the 3-nanometre lithography process in semiconductor manufacturing. He also said the new integrated circuit (IC) would be installed in the company's new 15S Pro smartphone and the Pad 7 Ultra tablet. Xiaomi did not provide more information about the XRing O1, especially which contract semiconductor manufacturer was producing the locally designed mobile SoC. Semiconductor foundries in mainland China are not able to mass produce 3-nm chips owing to US tech restrictions Still, Xiaomi has become the fourth tech company in the world to design a 3-nm mobile SoC for mass production after Apple Qualcomm and MediaTek The Beijing-based smartphone giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
