In February last year, Xiaomi released the surging S1 processor developed by its joint venture. As the first processor, it is natural to use a conservative strategy and a low-end architecture to ensure the stability of the product. However, the architecture of 28nm A53 (4+4) is far from Xiaomi's fever attribute, which makes it difficult to raise everyone's interest.

After 1 year, Love to play computer games According to the information from Xiaomi's supply chain, the second generation of this surging series processor is about to be released. It will use TSMC's 16nm process, 4 * A73+4 * A53 large and small core architecture. The A73 core is 2.2GHz, and the A53 core is 1.8GHz; In terms of GPU, Mali G71MP8, an official configuration of ARM, is adopted; Judging from the parameters of Pengpai S2, the performance of the processor is basically at the level of "Kirin 960". However, the supply chain said that the machine will not support CDMA networks, that is, it will not support full network connectivity.

As MWC 2018 approaches, the surging S2 is so heavy that Xiaomi will probably choose to show this chip to the world at MWC 2018, and its first model will be Xiaomi 6X.