Xiaomi's New Chip Matches Apple Single-Core Performance, Features SME2 Matrix Acceleration
lemire · x · 2026-08-24
Xiaomi's upcoming processor (Xring O3) shows impressive performance, matching Apple's cores in single-threaded tasks and significantly outpacing them in multi-threaded execution. The chip features a large 44MB cache, exceeding most laptop CPUs. Its largest core, C1-Ultra, supports SME2 (Scalable Matrix Extension 2) for matrix/AI acceleration and SVE2 for data parallelism, signaling a major boost in on-device AI capabilities.
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