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Xiaomi hints at a new custom processor coming next week
June 28, 2025
Xiaomiis no stranger to custom chipsets, as it previously released an in-house smartphone SoC in 2017. It’s been a few years, but it looks like the manufacturer could finally have new custom silicon up its sleeve.
Xiaomi posteda teaser on Weibotoday, specifically referencing a “self-developed chip” according to machine translation. However, the teaser and posts byvariousXiaomiexecutivesall mention the term “surged” or “surging.”
For the uninitiated, the manufacturer’s first and only commercially available custom smartphone chipset was called theSurge S1. So it certainly sounds like we can expect a new Surge chip then. But what should you expect from this?
The Surge S1 was a full chipset used in the budgetMi 5Cback in 2017, so you’d think that a new Surge chip would be a full-blown smartphone processor too. But developing a SoC is a complex, expensive, and time-consuming task. Even companies likeHuaweihave taken years and loads of releases to eventually deliver high-end processors. So it’s theoretically possible Xiaomi is developing a less ambitious piece of silicon that sits alongside a standard Snapdragon processor.
We’ve previously seen Google adopt a similar strategy with itsPixel Neural CoreandPixel Visual Core, giving a boost to machine learning and image processing while sitting alongside a flagship Qualcomm SoC. So a custom Xiaomi chip could offer a similarly focused boost while letting aSnapdragon 800-seriesprocessor handle everything else.
We won’t have long to wait to actually find out what Xiaomi is offering, as the official Weibo post confirms that we’ll find out more at its March 29 product launch.
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