Another one-sentence news segment of @digitalchatstation broke the news through Weibo that (Xiaomi) self-developed systems, self-developed cars, and self-developed chips will all appear “this year and next two years”.
As for where the self-developed system and self-developed chips are used, some Weibo netizens raised questions. Later, @digitalchatstation gave an affirmative answer: “Use them all.”
This means that future Xiaomi phones and Xiaomi cars will use self-developed chips and operating systems. Of course, this is not the first time that @digitalchat.com has revealed news about Xiaomi cars. As early as mid-July, he announced that Xiaomi’s “first car will be launched next year, and it will be accompanied by a self-developed chip with good gold content.” and vehicle-machine system architecture, some phased results may be released by the end of the year.”
It was previously reported that in June 2021, Xiaomi had invested in a number of companies in the fields of power batteries and autonomous driving. On September 22 of the same year, Xiaomi invested in an autonomous driving computing chip company Sesame Intelligence, Strategic Wheel and two rounds of Series C financing, with a post-investment valuation of nearly US$2 billion.
So far, Xiaomi cars have been exposed many times. They were also photographed conducting road tests in Xinjiang some time ago. Senior executives such as Lei Jun and Lu Weibing are suspected of visiting the site to supervise the operations. It should be noted that Xiaomi Motors’ target of mass production in 2024 is less than a year away.
Lu Weibing, partner and president of Xiaomi Group, revealed that Xiaomi’s car manufacturing is progressing very smoothly, and some recent progress has even exceeded expectations.
Lu Weibing said that Xiaomi’s actual investment in automobiles is even greater. Xiaomi is making long-term layout of automobiles with the goal of entering the top five in the world, doing full-stack self-research, and building its own automobile factory, so the cash flow is investment is higher than the disclosed figure.
Recently, Lu Weibing and Xiaomi founder Lei Jun posted a series of photos on Weibo about car building that have also sparked heated discussions. In response, Lu Weibing said that Xiaomi Motors has just ended its summer testing and has made progress beyond expectations and will maintain mass production in the first half of 2024. The goal remains unchanged.
As for the self-developed system, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website shows that Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd. registered the mios.cn website domain name on November 11, 2022. Currently, the domain name can be found in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, but it is in a 403 error state when opened, which means the resource is unavailable and the website does not have an https security certificate set up.
