Xiaomi had its
own event today at the National Convention Center in Beijing. It had two major
announcement - its first in-house chipset named Surge S1 and a Xiaomi Mi 5C
smartphone, powered by the new processor.
Xiaomi Mi 5C has 5.15” display, a 12 MP main camera
and a 8 MP snapper on the front for all the selfies on Weibo. There is a
fingerprint scanner on the front and you have 3 GB RAM and 64 GB internal
storage. The battery of Mi 5C is 2860 mAh and the device comes with Android 7.1
Nougat and MIUI out of the box. This whole setup is powered by octa-core Surge
S1.
The name “Surge” is still a rough translation of the
actual Chinese name of the chipset. The processor comes with 8 Cortex A53
cores, half of them clocked at 2.2 GHz and the other half at 1.4 GHz. The GPU
is Mali-T860, and there is VoLTE support. It is made on the 28 nm HPC process
and has “lower power consumption for daily use,” according to the company’s
press release.
