Xiaomi unveiled a series of new products on Monday \u2013 from a flagship foldable phone featuring proprietary chips to new models of its premium Skynomad SUV \u2013 underscoring the Chinese giant\u2019s intensified push to compete against rivals including Tesla, Apple and Huawei Technologies.<\/p>\n
Beijing-based Xiaomi<\/a> launched the 18 Fold, a foldable phone featuring a 7.58-inch inner display, a proprietary Xring O3 system-on-chip (SoC), and LPDDR6 memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT)<\/a>, said Lei Jun, founder and CEO, at an event held in Beijing.<\/p>\n Lei said the 18 Fold was built for durability with a new hinge structure to protect the inner display, a high-strength aluminium frame and strengthened cover glass.<\/p>\n He also touted the phone\u2019s performance gain thanks to adoption of its Xring O3, an AI processor packed with 24 billion transistors, a 26 per cent increase from its predecessor Xring O1 launched last year.<\/p>\n Lei said the Xring O3\u2019s CPU performance was 60 per cent higher than that of O1, while power consumption in certain tasks was reduced by 25 per cent.<\/p>\n The Xiaomi 18 Fold will sell from 10,999 yuan (US$1,639), with sales kicking off at 10am on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xiaomi unveiled a series of new products on Monday \u2013 from a flagship foldable phone featuring proprietary chips…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[311,1793,1374,107881,148523,18,5218,19,17,263997,58139,279,286899,152113,286898,82,1298,43557,5316,286897],"class_list":["post-677781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-beijing","tag-california","tag-counterpoint","tag-cxmt","tag-eire","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirin","tag-lei-jun","tag-mobile","tag-skynomad","tag-soc","tag-tarun-pathak","tag-technology","tag-tesla","tag-trendforce","tag-xiaomi","tag-xring"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117232962580574848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}