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This week, Xiaomi introduced an in-house flagship chipset for smartphones and tablets, the Xring O1. It's featured on the Xiaomi 15S Pro and the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra. Some expressed doubt as to how much Xiaomi actually did here – after all, the O1 uses standard CPU and GPU cores from the ARM parts bin. The team at Geekerwan did a deep dive and discovered that this is actually a heavily customized chip.

The Xring O1 is fabbed on the TSMC N3E node, the same as MediaTek's Dimensity 9400. And it uses some of the same parts too – e.g. Cortex-X925 for the CPU and Immortalis-G925 for the GPU....