Xiaomi Buys Stake in Chip Designer VeriSilicon to Produce In-House Processors
Jul. 17, 2019The investment was disclosed last week when a VeriSilicon filing to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) was officially published by the latter. According toReuters, the documents revealed that a fund run by Xiaomi became the company’s second-largest external shareholder in June. Since the publication of the filing, Xiaomi reportedly confirmed the news to Reuters without disclosing any of the financial terms.
In case you’re interested to know more about the Surge S1, the processor was fabricated on TSMC’s 28 nm HPC+ process, and came with eight Cortex-A53 cores in a big.LITTLE configuration. While four of the eight cores in the chipset were clocked at up to 2.2GHz, the other four cores operated at 1.4 GHz. The SoC also incorporated a Mali-T860 MP4 IGP for gaming and other graphics processing needs.
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