ARM-Based Mobile Chips By Lenovo And Xiaomi
This will an interesting phase in the realm of processor creation.
Recent times have witnessed a growing trend where prolific smartphone manufacturers are designing their own systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) instead of equipping their devices with a Intel or Qualcomm chip.
Apple and Samsung have been in the business for long now. Inspired by them, quite a few other manufacturers seem to be attempting to enter this manufacturing domain.
With a clear intention to compete against Apple and Samsung, Lenovo and Xiaomi are likely to build their own adaptable SoCs.
While Xiaomi has partnered with a leading chip designer Leadcore Innovation for ARM-based SoCs to be fitted in Xiaomi’s 2016 devices, Lenovo has been constantly making serious efforts towards developing its own ARM chips in-house.
This can’t bode well for full-time chip manufacturers! With the world’s two largest brands having become self-reliant, the long-established chip producers have already witnessed significant losses in business.
In 2015, San Diego-based Qualcomm experienced a significant drop in shipments and if Samsung succeeds in fully replacing the need for Snapdragon processors by it’s self-made Exynos line, then the chipset maker could behold further plunges.
There’s another side to consider too.
With the increased competition in the chip manufacturing business from budding smartphone manufacturers like Xiaomi and Lenovo, Apple and Samsung themselves need to gear up for some improvements, or it would not take China too long to assert their dominance in the chipset sector too.
Clearly, chip designing is a strenuous task which takes quite some time to get right and it demands continuous improvements from a set of skilled engineers working for several years to perfect the technique.
As the chipsets from Xiaomi and Lenovo get ready for launch, it’ll be interesting to watch how their products fare against those of the existing eminent specialists, and those of the behemoths.
Originally published at Chip-Monks.
