called Xiaomi will use a processor of its own for the homemade device in the lower middle classes begin mid-year.
Xiaomi step is expected to make a number of processor manufacturers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek in danger, because they are processor supplier for Xiaomi, quoted from Reuters, Sunday (02/21/2016).
The processor is designed by the so-called Xiaomi will be used in mobile phones redmi Note series, although not yet clear how many will be produced by Xiaomi 2016's.
The same source also mentions that Xiaomi already employs between 200-300 people to work on the mobile phone chip design in several cities, including Nanjing, Shanghai and Beijing.
"Xiaomi modeled on the processor chip design in-house from Apple, Samsung and Huawei," said the unnamed source was. He also mentioned that three vendors had been able to use its own processor chip in its commercial products.
There has been no comment from the Xiaomi on this matter. However, MediaTek has their own opinion, they argued, if the scale of mobile phone sales is not large enough, then designing its own processor will actually increase the cost of production.
"Designing the chip in-house would actually be more expensive if the scale of the sales of the smartphone vendor is not large enough to fund research and development. And in the end they had to give the job to a professional chip maker," said the Taiwanese Company
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