Xiaomi may introduce a custom smartphone chip and revolutionary battery tech on Monday
Xiaomi could be planning to revive its in-house chipset efforts.
The Chinese company is going to host an event on March 29 to reveal new Mi 11 series and Mi Mix phones and a teaser posted on the social networking website Weibo says a custom chipset will be unveiled the same day.
What's not clear is whether this is a full-fledged mobile SoC or a peripheral processor.
At that time, the development of mobile SoCs was supposedly considered a complicated and cost-intensive venture. That's not to say that Xiaomi gave up on chip development completely, as it bought a 6 percent stake in the semiconductor company VeriSilicon Holdings in 2019.
MyFixGuide claims the chip is actually an Image Signal Processor. The forthcoming Mi Mix is confirmed to have a camera with a liquid lens, so it could be that the company has made an ISP to go with it.
Xiaomi's new silicon-oxygen anode battery tech
Xiaomi has also announced that the Mi 11 Ultra will feature a new silicon-oxygen anode battery tech, which would be a first for smartphones. Despite being smaller, the battery will have more capacity than graphite cells and it will also charge faster.
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