Xiaomi's Xuanjie O1 chip wins top honor at the 2025 Ten‑Million Technology Award
Xiaomi has officially announced the results of its 2025 Ten‑Million Technology Award, held recently at the Xiaomi Science and Technology Park in Beijing. After three months of competition and rigorous evaluation, Xiaomi's self‑developed Xuanjie O1 mobile‑chip platform earned the event's highest award for its innovation, leadership, and overall impact.
Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder, chairman, and CEO, attended the ceremony for the seventh consecutive year and personally presented the award to the winning team. He noted that Xuanjie O1 has received strong feedback from both users and media since launch, praising the chip team's competitiveness and encouraging them to continue pushing forward with even stronger products.
According to Xiaomi, this year's Ten‑Million Technology Award received 154 submissions from 10 major departments across the company. A total of 66 projects advanced to the re‑evaluation stage, covering fields such as semiconductors, imaging, AI, and materials. Both the number of entries and their overall quality reached record highs.
Xuanjie O1 is fully developed and designed in‑house by Xiaomi. It uses a second‑generation 3‑nm manufacturing process and introduces a new ten‑core, four‑cluster architecture that balances high performance with everyday power efficiency. Xiaomi says the chip enabled full smartphone functionality within just six days of integration, placing its performance experience among the world's top tier.
With this achievement, Xiaomi becomes the first company in mainland China-and the fourth globally-to release a flagship mobile‑chip platform built on a 3‑nm process. The company describes this milestone as a major step toward its long‑term goal of becoming a global hard‑tech leader.
Lei Jun previously announced that the company's annual technology award would be upgraded to the Ten‑Million Technology Award starting in 2025, raising the standard for recognizing breakthrough innovation and increasing support for long‑term R&D. As of 2026, Xiaomi has held seven editions of its annual technology awards, distributing more than 75 million yuan (about USD 10.5 million) in total and selecting nine top‑tier winners, including two years with dual awards.
Looking ahead, Xiaomi has committed to investing 200 billion yuan (about USD 28 billion) into core‑technology research and development over the next five years.
Xiaomi, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing, is one of China's largest consumer‑electronics and smart‑device manufacturers. The company develops smartphones, IoT products, home appliances, and increasingly its own semiconductor and software platforms. Xiaomi's long‑term strategy emphasizes deep vertical integration across chips, operating systems, and AI technologies.
