Although Lei Jun's company is among the few to be able to boast firsts regarding the launch of smartphones with preview processors by Qualcomm but considering the pandemic period we have been experiencing and undergoing for a year now, the prices of the components have started to rise as resources begin to run out.
Here is that companies such as Xiaomi and Realme, have begun to alarm and alarm their users, warning that problems relating to the stock of devices may soon arise, especially those that use Qualcomm chips, much more expensive than the solutions offered by MediaTek.
Xiaomi "gets its hands on" on possible stock problems of Qualcomm SoCs
The thing that really alarms is that the announcement of this eventuality was made directly by Lu Wiebing, in conjunction with the presentation of Redmi K40, adding that he cannot promise the right "dose" of devices towards a high demand. In short, it is decidedly honest by Xiaomi / Redmi to inform its users about probable shortcomings, with the risk of users renouncing the purchase.
It should be specified that other companies will be affected by the shortage on the part of Qualcomm, so the problem is not to be attributed to Xiaomi or Redmi, indeed to be honest the problems related to the stocks would also concern gadgets such as TWS headphones equipped with Qualcomm audio chip, which seems to have given as delivery deadline values of 30 weeks.
Alarmist scenario but we trust that Xiaomi will be able to cope with this problem without being affected by the sales of its latest flagships, but if not, it will be time to switch to devices equipped with MediaTek chips considering the excellent results obtained with the recent SoCs of the house Taiwanese, or is it time for the brand to bring out the much talked about proprietary chipset? We just have to wait, after all we have experienced more difficult moments and stories.
