In its bid to have more in-house components, Xiaomi unveiled the XRING O1 and XRING T1 as its first in-house processors after the Surge S1 in 2017.
The XRING T1 is meant for wearables like the Watch S4 15th Anniversary Edition, and has a self-developed 4G baseband that includes an eSIM for independent communications. Xiaomi claims 35% better performance over other wearable by its competitors.
The bigger news is the XRING O1, which is a flagship-grade 3nm chip that has a 16-core Immortalis-G925 GPU and a 10-core CPU that consists of two Cortex-X925 prime cores clocked at 3.9GHz, six Cortex-A725 performance cores that are clocked between 1.9-3.4 GHz, and 2 Cortex-A520 efficiency cores clocked at 1.8 GHz. it also has a 6-core NPU and Xiaomi’s 4th-generation ISP.
Xiaomi is so confident with the XRING O1 that it claims that it can rival the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Apple’s A18 Pro in terms of performance. Two flagship devices are using the XRING O1: the 15S Pro, which is a 15 Pro with Xiaomi’s new in-house chip, and the Pad 7 Ultra.
The Pad 7 Ultra is a new tablet that has as huge 14-inch 120hz OLED display with 1600nits peak brightness and support for 12-bit color, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support. The Gorilla Glass 5 protecting it can be opted to be a nano-texture glass, and the notch houses a 32-megapixel selfie camera. Its lone rear camera is a 50-megapixel ISOCELL JN1. Inside the Pad 7 Ultra is a 12000mAh battery with 120w charging, and its optional keyboard is made from magnesium alloy and has function keys and a pressure-sensitive touchpad.
The Xiaomi 15S Pro starts at CNY 5499(~Php 43k) for the 16GB/512GB model, while the Pad 7 Ultra starts at CNY 5700(~Php 44k) for the 12GB/256GB variant.
