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Xiaomi's in-house chipset Pinecone gets its own Weibo page

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Peter 06 February 2017

Xiaomi Mobile hardware Rumors

A couple of years ago Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi 2A - a phone powered by a Leadcore chipset. You’d be forgiven if you haven’t heard the name before, but both companies partnered to create Beijing Songguo (of which Xiaomi controls 51%, Leadcore the other 49%).

That collaboration may may finally be bearing fruit - a Pinecone. That’s the name of a new chipset and it already has an official Weibo page (that is very light on details, there’s the logo and little else).

According to rumors, the initial release will feature two models. Pinecone 1 will have an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU while the Pinecone 2 will be more powerful with four A73 cores and four A53 cores. There’s no word on the GPU, just some dubious rumors that the chip will be made to the cutting edge 10nm process.

Pinecone's Weibo page offers very little information Pinecone's Weibo page offers very little information
Pinecone's Weibo page offers very little information

The Xiaomi Mi 5c may be the first phone to use the Pinecone chipset, though earlier rumors pointed to Snapdragon 625 instead. It could well be a regional thing - Snapdragon for the West, Pinecone for the East. So far, Xiaomi has relied on Qualcomm's Snapdragons and MediaTek's Helios (though MediaTek tends to get in patent fights in the West).

Source (in Chinese)

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  • Xdadevet
  • Gjc
  • 12 Feb 2017

This is probably true. But I think because they have multiple variants, it won't affect international users much if we just buy the QC model. And to be fair, I've been using AOSP since my first Android that supported it, but my Xiaomi Mi 5 just runs ...

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  • AnonD-625786
  • 0@k
  • 08 Feb 2017

Oops, I just did ;)

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  • AnonD-625786
  • 0@k
  • 08 Feb 2017

Um, I actually own a Huawei P9, and I love it. I also like other Chinese manufacturers like OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo and ZTE. I just think Xiaomi is a failing company. lol And I'm actually not a ''failure in human being'' - but you should seriously s...

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