Xiaomi will surely be a case study due to its ability to arise almost from nothing to become one of the “freshest” companies whose capabilities include its great ability to move between different business sectors. If you've gone from electric utilities to surprise, now you want to do it with a own division to design its own mobile chips.
Xiaomi Corp. already developing a chip for mobile phones for its next smartphones with a big goal in mind: to be completely independent of third-party suppliers like Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc.
It's not the first which embarked on the development of its own chips and Samsung has its Exynos, although they could not come close to the premium chips of Qualcomm, especially in terms of energy efficiency, but it was perfectly useful to include the Exynos 2400 in some of its best mobile phones launched in Europe like the Galaxy S24 and S24+.
Google also has its Tensorswhich, thanks to the American manufacturer's competence in software, allows it to be more versatile and not to depend on a company like Qualcomm, which is the benchmark in chip manufacturing. Xiaomi will be afraid of being more autonomous in a market dominated by Qualcomm SoCs.
Xiaomi chip mass production expected to start in 2025according to a close source, who did not wish to reveal his name. And next year, it looks like other tech companies will join Xiaomi in investing in semiconductors; one of the races in which they are now immersed in a challenge that appears to be tougher between the United States and China next year.
In fact, according to Bloomberg, Chinese officials have consistently told local businesses that try to reduce your dependence on foreign technology as much as possibleand here is Xiaomi's movement before the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in Casablanca. And just hours ago, Trump announced that he wanted to impose 25% tariffs on products from China. We are therefore faced with the first steps of a trade war between the two countries.
A new challenge for Xiaomi in a segment in which it is quite difficult to face Qualcomm and MediaTek, although the example of Google with its Tensor in the Pixels can help it place its own chips in mobile phones that do not require the best components, and here the Chinese manufacturer has a catalog of smartphones where its chips could be very competitive.
The biggest challenge is designing a chip that can take on the best on the market like the current Snapdragon 8 Elite and which is chosen by mobile manufacturers for their best phones. Samsung tries it with its Exynos, but it fails in terms of energy efficiency and the temperature it takes.
We will have to see Xiaomi's ability to prepare a premium chip that it can ride on some of its best mobile phones, since one of its main goals in recent years, and which could now be slowed down, has been to sell premium mobile phones over 1,000 dollars and increase the quality of photography on your smartphones.
