| Guided reading | Speaking of self-developed processors, many people think of Apple's A series and Huawei's Kirin series, but there was a product that caused a sensation last year, that is Xiaomi's Pine cone processor, which was equipped with the Surge S1 last spring. Xiaomi 5c became Xiaomi's first mobile phone with a self-developed processor, and after more than a year, we are finally going to see the Surging S2! |
Today Digitimes issued an article saying that semiconductor manufacturers such as Foxconn Electronics, Inventec, Largan and TSMC are all paying attention to orders from Xiaomi, because Xiaomi plans to increase mobile phone shipments from more than 70 million units in 2017 to 100 million units this year . But among them, TSMC's orders are the most important, because they are responsible for the production of Xiaomi's Songuo Pengpai S2.
It is reported that the Surging S2 will use TSMC's 16nm process, and the order volume is not very large at this stage, but subsequent orders will increase with the continuous deepening of the chipset. Because 16nm is used, the positioning should still be entry or mid-range products. The Xiaomi Mi 5c equipped with Surging S1 last year received a mediocre market response, but the Xiaomi self-developed image processor it is equipped with has been widely praised. I wonder what surprises Xiaomi will bring to the S2 this year?
In terms of specific specifications, the Surging S2 will use an octa-core design of 4-core A73+4-core A53, with a main frequency of 2.2GHz and 1.8GHz, and the GPU will use an octa-core Mali G71. It is said that the overall performance will be on par with the Kirin 960, supporting UFS2.1 flash memory and LPDDR4 memory, but not supporting CDMA is still the biggest regret.
Digitimes also stated in the report that Xiaomi will continue to deepen the supply chain this year, and President Lin Bin will focus on the production capacity of lens modules, because Xiaomi may launch products equipped with multi-lens cameras in the second half of 2018. At the same time, Xiaomi is still busy with its IPO recently. It is said that Xiaomi will submit an application for listing on the Hong Kong stock market as early as April 30.
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