Xiaomi's Xring O3 examined - at least a two-generations leap in power efficiency‎

Xiaomi announced that the upcoming Xiaomi 18 Fold will be powered by the in-house Xring O3 chip, the successor to the Xring O1. What happened to the O2? Well, the O3 is so good, that Xiaomi skipped a number – that’s only partially a joke as Geekerwan examined the new chip and it says it delivers a two-generations improvement in energy efficiency compared to the O1. The Xring O3 is a contradiction – it uses older tech and yet it looks like it can fight the upcoming Dimensity 9600 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips. For starters, the chip is fabbed by TSMC on a 3nm node called N3P, an...