Xiaomi released the surging S1 on February 28, 2017, the first Xiaomi Pinecone independently developed mobile phone chip, this chip was applied to the Xiaomi 5C, when the surging S1 as a Xiaomi self-developed CPU chip made a crowd of people boiling, Xiaomi 5C was also praised by some people as the first Xiaomi mobile phone with pure pedigree. But four years have passed, at present, there is no more news of the large-scale application of the surging S1 chip, and the surging C1 and the surging P1 launched by Xiaomi are only ISP (image signal processing) chips and fast charging chips, which makes people feel that Xiaomi has abandoned its self-developed CPU chips (SoC chips).
Some people think that although the surging C1 and the surging P1 are not self-developed CPU chips, they are also a kind of chips, and xiaomi is "saving the country in the curve", after all, the self-developed chip research and development is too difficult, the input cost is too high, and it can better accumulate research and development experience from the less difficult field. It sounds like some truth, but why can Huawei HiSilicon and Kirin chips be successfully developed? I personally feel that the main reason why Xiaomi is not in the self-developed SoC chip is that the Xiaomi 5C with the surging S1 is not good, the mobile phone heat is high, the performance is not good, the follow-up optimization of the R & D investment is large, in the short term can not see significant improvement, considering the profit problem, it is better to continue to use qualcomm, MediaTek chip use is more reliable, but if Xiaomi no longer Xiaomi 5C on the basis of continue to optimize the self-developed SoC chip, then how can the self-developed SoC chip continue to improve its own performance? How much help can this low-threshold self-developed ISP chip and fast-charging chip bring to the self-developed SoC? Why should Xiaomi focus on such self-developed chips with small patterns and low technical thresholds?
Of course, I am not saying that the millet surging P1 fast charge is not good, after all, it also brings the upgrade of the mobile phone fast charging technology, I just think that the operation of the millet east stick west stick is really not as good as watching Huawei calm down to concentrate on optimizing the surging S1, even if the millet surging S1 is applied to other products in a large area, such as smart voice speakers, tablets, etc., it is more or less conducive to the continuous optimization of the surging S1 chip.