Many of you will surely remember the presentation of the Xiaomi Mi 5C, younger brother of the old glory My 5 and the bearer of a novelty that has shaken the minds to all users: this device was in fact, in the distant 2017, the device chosen to mount the Pinecone Surge S1 chipset or Xiaomi's first proprietary processor. Below we show you: 64 bit octa-core processor, all with Cortex A53 architecture, but 4 with 2.2GHz frequency and 4 with 1.4GHz frequency; in addition, the supplied CPU is a Mali-T860. The data spoke of a 40% more performance and 40% less consumption compared to the previous generation. After the release of this device, his successor was also mentioned We are 6C, which was supposed to mount a Surge S2: but at what point will this proprietary SoC be?
Surge S2: what happened to the SoC owner of Xiaomi?
It's been a while and some news we had in recent days, but not really beautiful: it's true that now we are fond of the Snapdragon but maybe a new processor designed on devices Xiaomi, would also be good for the pockets of buyers of top of the range as it would certainly cost less than one Qualcomm.
In any case, we came to know from a few hours ago Wang Teng Thomas, product director of Xiaomi, which the successor of the Surge S1, entrusted to TSMC for the realization it is in delay on the roadmap due to some unexpected errors. So it seems like after two years we'll have to wait a little longer to see a device with Surge S2. In any case, the configuration of this processor should be this: octa-core 64 bit, 4 core with Cortex A73 architecture at 2.2GHz and 4 cores with Cortex A53 architecture at 1.8GHz. La CPU mounted would be (or should be) one Mali G71 and both will be supported UFS 2.1 flash memory is, of course, the RAM of type L: in short, at presaturation level, it would arise slightly above the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and therefore medium-range.
"Give us some time": This seems to mean the product director of Xiaomi, responding to a Chinese social media user Weibo. In fact, the urgency of a new processor is not there even if the Curiosity to see a Xiaomi device running with a new generation processor is so great. Personally I am very fond of the Qualcomm SoCs thanks to the performances, but I do not hide that the idea of a new proprietary processor is really nice. You would like to try a new one on future devices Xiaomi mid-range or you want to be on the safe side with one Snapdragon?
