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Xiaomi continues to invest in semiconductor manufacturers despite starting to prioritise its own chips at various times in its smartphone offerings. A Xiaomi brand called Yinlefei Semiconductor has invested in almost 100 Chinese chip businesses. The investments are thought to have been made because Xiaomi wants to expand in the semiconductor market and China wants to increase semiconductor production.
Xiaomi invests in semiconductor companies while applying new business changes inside its own organisation. With the addition of Hubei Xiaomi Changhiang Industrial Fund Partnership as a stakeholder, the company's capital increased by 9.09%, from $163,088 to $177,914. The representative of the 2021-founded Yinlefei Semiconductor is named Xu Yang. In addition to the semiconductor industry, the company also provides technical assistance, software development, software sales, sales of electronic devices, sales of communications equipment, etc.
Why does Xiaomi invest in semiconductor firms?
Smart automobiles are another factor driving Xiaomi's interest in semiconductors. Thanks to the businesses it invests in, Xiaomi, which has been trying to study and build smart cars with improved autonomous capabilities, will be able to produce the chips it will use in its vehicles more affordably and take precautions against potential U.S. chip embargos. This initiative by Xiaomi is quite interesting since processors made by Xiaomi could eventually be found in more smartphones and tablets.
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There are a few chips made by Xiaomi today. The Surge S1 SoC, which was utilised in the Xiaomi Mi 5C and has performance comparable to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, was Xiaomi's first semiconductor. It has a Mali T830 GPU and Cortex A53 CPU cores. The Surge C1 image signal processor was introduced in Q2 2021. In the final weeks of 2021, the Surge P1 power management chip was also unveiled along with the Xiaomi 12 series. The Xiaomi 12S Ultra's batteries most recently utilised the Surge G1 BMS chip.
