It does not come in as a surprise that Xiaomi is planning to introduce its own chipset. The tech giant from China is receiving a fair amount of funding and making sufficient profits to rub shoulders with top brands such as Apple and Samsung. Xiaomi has been known as the budget smartphone manufacturer that makes many low-cost smartphone seekers happy with premium hardware. Now, Xiaomi could shake up the mobile industry with their own chipset to alter the smartphone pricing around the world.
Xiaomi is all set to announce its own chipset for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches. The chipset is presently dubbed as Rifle and is based on the British maker ARM’s architecture. The new processor is said to be launched in May and the first Rifle-based handset could be the Mi Max.
The company is developing its own mobile APU (Application processor unit) in a possibility to make its products cheaper and have their own eco-system in place. According to the Korean Times, the Xiaomi APUs will be manufactured with licensing from ARM, a British-based intellectual property firm. Developing their own APUs could give Xiaomi the upper hand in altering the pricing for the products they use it in. This could mean a possible threat for chipset giants such as Qualcomm, MediaTek, Intel and Samsung, who are one of the top chipset giants at present.
The new chipset, if successful, will make its way into many devices and gadgets that Xiaomi plans to release henceforth. The chipset could benefit Xiaomi hugely by being implemented into their smart devices, such as the smartphones, tablets, the upcoming smartwatch, the televisions and other smart appliances.
Xiaomi is all set to launch the new Mi Max (possibly with the debutante Rifle chipset), the Mi Band 2, the Smart watch and the next version of the operating system MIUI 8 on May 10. The event will be held at the National conventional Centre in Beijing, China.
