Xiaomi schedules major launch event for this week

Xiaomi is gearing up for a big product launch event later this week, which will coincide with the brand’s 15th anniversary. Xiaomi confirmed that it will announce its Xiaomi 15S Pro – an updated version of the Xiaomi 15 Pro on May 22 alongside the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra and Xiaomi YU7 – the brand’s first electric SUV.

Xiaomi "New Starting Point" event poster

The event is scheduled to begin at 7PM Beijing time (11AM UTC) and is titled “New Starting Point” as there is one more highly important announcement: Xiaomi’s new in-house smartphone chipset – Xring O1 (oh-one).

Xiaomi’s self-developed SoC will be fabbed on a 3nm process and reportedly offers performance comparable to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with a 1+3+4 CPU configuration.

Xiaomi Xring O1 key specs (machine translated)

As per the most recent rumors, it will utilize a Cortex-X925 prime-core, three Cortex-A725 performance cores, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency units. We’re also expecting an Imagination Technologies GPU and a 5G modem from Unisoc.

Source (in Chinese)