Xiaomi's in-house smartphone SoC tipped to launch next year

Rumours about Xiaomi's in-house smartphone SoC have surfaced once again. The once-doomed department had been resurrected in 2021, shortly after being abandoned a year prior. X leaker Yogesh Brar has now revealed some tidbits.

The yet-to-be-announced SoC will be unveiled next year. It is unclear if it will power a flagship smartphone such as the Xiaomi 15. However, the chances of that seem low because it supposedly performs on par with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

Additionally, it will be manufactured on TSMC's N4P node, putting it at somewhat of a disadvantage against N3E-made parts such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400. Plus, it will use a 5G modem from UNISOC, presumably the one found on the recently announced T760 SoC. 

Unfortunately, the leak misses out on key specs, such as its CPU/GPU. Unlike Huawei (and by extension, HiSilicon), Xiaomi has access to  Arm IP and could use something like a Cortex-X4/Cortex-A720/Cortex-A520 for the CPU. It is difficult to ascertain what GPU will go with it, but it will probably stick to  Arm, at least for the first generation.