Xiaomi's chip making arm changes name

Beijing Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd. has changed its business name and is now renamed Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., which is 100% owned by Xiaomi Communications Co.

In 2017, Xiaomi's Pinecone officially released its first self-developed mobile chip, the Surge S1, which currently only exists in Xiaomi 5c hands.

Surge S1 chip features: ① 28nm octa-core 64-bit processor, main frequency up to 2.2GHz, real-time switching of the size of the core design (2.2GHz quad-core A53 + 1.4GHz quad-core A53); ② quad-core Mali T860 graphics processor, power consumption is reduced by 40%; ③ 32-bit high-performance voice DSP, support VoLTE, call voice quality improvement of 100%.

In September 2018, Xiaomi's Pinecone Electronics and Ali Zhongtianwei collaborated to accelerate the domestic commercialization of the RISC-V CPU.

In April 2019, Xiaomi Group Organization Department released an organizational restructuring email, Xiaomi's wholly-owned subsidiary Pinecone Electronics team to restructure.

Part of the team split to form a new company, Nanjing Big Fish Semiconductor, to focus on AI and IoT chips. Pinecone will continue to focus on mobile SoC chip development.

As for when the much-anticipated "Surge S2" will arrive, it is still unknown. But the 2018 Surge S2 chip did appear, according to Weibo blogger @人生三个境界.