XRing: Upcoming Xiaomi in-house SoC spotted again, slated to power the Xiaomi 15S Pro this year
Word surfaced online a while ago indicating Xiaomi's plan to launch a new in-house chipset. Those rumors appear to have serious substance to them, with a new leak now revealing references to said chipset in Xiaomi's own Mi code.
As outed by Xiaomitime, Mi code has now confirmed Xiaomi's development of a new, in-house SoC, with the codename "XRing". This chipset is expected to be branded as the Pinecone Surge S2, a direct successor to the Surge S1—Xiaomi's first attempt at an in-house chipset featured on the Mi 5c back in 2017.
While details of "XRing" are hardly comprehensive at this point, the chipset is all but certain to use a MediaTek modem—possibly the T90 5G modem, if prior leaks are anything to go by. Reportedly, the Surge S2 "XRing" will be a 3 nm SoC, likely built on TSMC's N3E node, and will sport a Cortex-X3 prime core, three Cortex-A715 cores, four Cortex-A510 cores, and Imagination's CXT-48-1536 GPU.
It's unlikely Xiaomi uses the Surge S2 on anything more than a few of its models this year, due to the associated risk. That said, it currently looks nailed-on that the Xiaomi 15S Pro, codenamed "dijun" and bearing the model number "25042PN24C", will feature the chipset.
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