Xiaomi is officially stepping into the chip game with the Xring 01, its first in-house flagship processor. And this isn’t a baby step—it’s a full-on flex. Built using TSMC’s 3nm process and based on ARM architecture, this chip is aiming straight for the likes of Snapdragon and Exynos.
Outperforms Exynos, matches Snapdragon
According to leaked benchmarks, the Xring 01 clocks 3,119 in single-core and 9,673 in multi-core on Geekbench 6. That’s about as good as the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and noticeably ahead of Samsung’s Exynos 2400. It’s crazy to think Xiaomi, traditionally reliant on Qualcomm, now has a chip that can rival the best in the biz.
The Xring 01 in numbers
This chip didn’t just pop up overnight. Xiaomi reportedly spent four years and $13.5 billion to bring the Xring 01 to life. It’s packing 19 billion transistors, and the R&D team behind it now has more than 2,500 engineers. It’s one of the biggest bets the company has made—and it might just pay off.
Not Xiaomi’s first chip—but easily its best
If you’ve been following Xiaomi for a while, you might remember the Surge S1 from 2017. It was their first-ever chip but stayed in the entry-level lane. The Surge S2 was planned for the Mi 6X but never launched. This time, though, Xiaomi’s not messing around. The Xring 01 is flagship-ready and built to impress.
Samsung’s dream chip is still… a dream
Samsung was supposed to debut its own 3nm chip—the Exynos 2500, a.k.a. the “Dream Chip”—with the Galaxy S25. But delays in manufacturing pushed it back. Now, there’s chatter that it could launch with the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in July, but nothing’s confirmed. Either way, Xiaomi beat them to it.
