Xiaomi’s Surge S1:First In house chipset : Explained : Mi 5c launch

xioami is  independent about their components. But this achievements a huge step towards making xiaomi more indepent. Now xiaomi has become 4th company to build its own house chip themselves after apple , samsung & huawei. & also xiaomi is the 2nd Chinese company to achieve this. “The ability to create its own chipsets is the pinnacle achievement
for any smartphone company,” said Xiaomi chief executive Lei Jun in a statement.Developing a chipset was part of a 10-years road map . It seemed that in order to achieve its vision of making innovation available to everyone, Xiaomi needed to find ways to combine development of both hardware and software, including at the chipset level. Surge S1 is the result and came out of the company’s Pinecone research and development subsidiary after 28 months of pinecone's establishment. Pincone was established on 16 oct 2014. here in this diagram you can see how this processor has been developed day by day. This is the first generation processor from xioami & of course they will keep developing it.

so The Surge S1 is the first in-house chipset for Xiaomi, using an octa-core ARM Cortex A53 processor, and incorporating 4 x 2.2GHz cores and 4 x 1.4GHz cores, which the company said achieves “a balance between performance and power efficiency.” it has low power control system component inside the chipset. it supports LPddr3 & EMMC5.0. Also included is an integrated Mali T-860 MP4 GPU, which will provide “superb” graphics performance in gaming and support for 4K videos, and a 32-bit DSP supporting VoLTE and 16kHz sampling to deliver high-quality audio and voice calls. ALSO HAS CHIP LEVEL SECURITY WITH TTE ARCHITECTURE.  ANOTHER main support is 16 bit DUAL CORE ISP WHICH ENHANCES MORE LIGHT SENSITIVITY & DUAL NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHM. THAT IS HELPFUL TO more improve the camera picture & video quality for low light photography than the previous & other models in the market.The chipset is claimed to have a special expertise on image processing. Surge S1's ISP algorithm claims to improve camera light sensitivity by almost 150 per cent giving Xiaomi the much needed boost in low-light camera technology.

also the antutu score for this chipset is 64817 which is just before snapdragon 625 chipset & greekbench 4.0 score is 3399 which is also just before snapdragon 625 chipset placing surge s1 at the top level of benchmark.The launch of its proprietary chipset moves Xiaomi away from offerings by Qualcomm and MediaTek, providers that many manufacturers turn to for high-end and low-end phones, respectively & definitely they should be worried about.

In conjunction with THIS CHIPSET ANNOUNCEMENT, the company also introduced the Mi 5c, which is the first phone to use this inaugural chipset.  this smartphone is SO light. It comes equipped with a 1.25µm ultra light-sensitive 12-megapixel camera. ALSO WILL HAVE 3GB of RAM,64GB of internal memory,& fingerprint sensor. The device gets an all-metal body with a 5.15 inch screen which can crank up a brightness level of  550-nits with the somewhat iphone 7 looks. price will be $218 approximately Indian rupees 14500.