Xiaomi ramps up Surge S2 mass production, plans to use it on Xiaomi Mi 6c, Mi 6s!


According to recent rumors, Xiaomi is already preparing for the mass production of their second in-house chipset, Surge S2. The device is the successor to the first S1 Surge SoC that has finally reached this stage after almost two years of development.

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For those of you who don’t remember, the Surge S1 was manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), built on the 28nm manufacturing process.

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It seems now that the time is right for the company to begin the mass production of Surge S2 chips, with rumors insisting that this will happen durin the 3rd quarter of the year. It packs an octa-core processor that feature four Cortex A53 cores running at 2.2 GHz and another four Cortex A53 cores working at 1.4 GHz, along with a Mali-T860 MP4 GPU. The specific chipset supports Cat. 4 LTE modem, LPDDR3 RAM and eMMC 5.0 storage.

The Surge S2 SoC will be built on the 16nm architecture and it could be used in the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 6c and Mi 6s models, scheduled to launch by the end of this year.

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10 Comments

  1. Lubemark
    June 23, 2017

    IT seems ypu are doinq some confusion Xiaomi Surge S2 aka Pinecone V 970 should pack 4 A73 chip, four A 53 chip and 10 core MALI G771

    • Lazar Prodanovic
      June 23, 2017

      MALI G71*

      • Lubemark
        June 23, 2017

        yeah typo MALI G71 mp12

    • Muhammad Yasir
      June 23, 2017

      hope so !

  2. Muhammad Yasir
    June 23, 2017

    boring bull !

    A73 or bust !

  3. Lubemark
    June 23, 2017

    IT seems ypu are doinq some confusion Xiaomi Surge S2 aka Pinecone V 970 should pack 4 A73 chip, four A 53 chip and 10 core MALI G771

    • Lazar Prodanovic
      June 23, 2017

      MALI G71*

    • Lubemark
      June 23, 2017

      yeah typo MALI G71 mp12

    • Guest
      June 23, 2017

      hope so !

  4. Guest
    June 23, 2017

    boring bull !

    A73 or bust !