Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has confirmed that it will be launching its in-house Pinecone processor at an event on February 28. The company confirmed the launch event on Weibo. Xiaomi has been rumoured to be working on its in-house processor for quite some time.
According to the official invite, the Xiaomi Pinecone processor announcement event will kick off at 2pm China time (11:30am IST), and will be held at Beijing National Convention Center. Unfortunately, there is no word whether the event will be live-streamed by the company.
The Pinecone processor is widely expected to debut on the company's Mi 5c smartphone that has been making rounds on the Internet . An earlier report by the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Xiaomi is all set to take on the likes Apple, Samsung, and Huawei with its own in-house processors.
Earlier this month, the official page of Xiaomi's Pinecone processor went live on social networking site Weibo that seemingly confirmed the existence of the in-house processor from the company.
Notably, this is not the first time when Xiaomi will be trying its hands on a different processor other than Qualcomm or MediaTek as the company few years ago launched the Redmi 2A with a Leadcore chipset. Based on preliminary leaks, the Chinese company is rumoured launch two processor models - t he Pinecone 1 with an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, and the Pinecone 2 with four Cortex-A73 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores. There's no clarity on the GPU, but the chip is expected to be made in the 10nm process.
The move to launch an in-house processor from Xiaomi could mean that the company may part ways from Qualcomm which has been a dominant supplier of chipsets in majority of Xiaomi handsets. We can expect Xiaomi to use the Pinecone processor on the company's upcoming flagship, Mi 6, as well.
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