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Commentary: How a US$20M TSMC tape-out led to Xiaomi's 3nm breakthrough

Staff reporter, Commentary; Levi Li, DIGITIMES Asia 0

Xiaomi founder Lei Jun. Credit: Xiaomi live streaming

At Xiaomi's 2025 annual conference, founder Lei Jun spoke with calm restraint about the company's self-developed Xring O1 chip. Yet beneath that composure were moments of risk and suspense: the US$20 million bill for the first TSMC 3nm tape-out, engineers...

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