Xiaomi Has Already Filed The ‘XRING 02’ Trademark, Hinting That The Company Has Begun Development Work On The XRING 01’s Immediate Successor, But No Specification Details Are Available

The technological breakthrough from Xiaomi in the form of its first in-house 3nm XRING 01 meant that the company will slowly stop relying on its chipset partners like Qualcomm and MediaTek, but this plan can only reach fruition if there are successors to the custom SoC. It turns out that Xiaomi might have commenced development of the XRING 02, with a new leak revealing that the trademark of the silicon has already been filed, along with other details.

XRING 02 is just one of the many trademarks filed by Xiaomi, with ‘XRING T1’ and ‘XRING 0’ also included

A series of images was shared by our close acquaintance @faridofanani96 on X, and upon further investigation, we found that the XRING 02 trademark filing was listed on the Chinese query platform TianYanCha. Other names such as XRING T1, which is the in-house SoC found in the Xiaomi Watch S4, and XRING 0, have also been trademarked, but the most interesting bit is that the XRING 02 leak strongly hints at some development work being done behind closed doors, indicating that Xiaomi wants to keep churning out more advanced chipsets.

The XRING 01 was fabricated on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, which only means that the XRING 02 would utilize the Taiwanese third-generation 3nm node, also known as ‘N3P’ at the minimum, or transition to the cutting-edge 2nm technology, depending on how long it takes Xiaomi to introduce the immediate successor. Unfortunately, the Chinese superstar will encounter a boatload of problems along the way, because with the U.S. banning the import of specialized EDA tools necessary for semiconductor development, Xiaomi cannot leverage the 2nm process for the XRING 02.

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Instead, the company could be limited to TSMC’s 3nm N3E process, which is still an advanced lithography, but the XRING 02 could end up playing catch-up with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 3 and Apple’s A20 and A20 Pro, as these will reportedly gravitate to TSMC’s 2nm node. Unlike Huawei and SMIC, Xiaomi is not placed on Taiwan’s export control list, meaning that the company can still import EDA tools if it obtains a license. In short, there is a possibility that the XRING 02 will keep up with the competition when compared to lithography, but we can only get the complete picture in a couple of months, so stay tuned for more updates.

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