Independent research and development of millet published processor - surging S1, become the minority carriers, has its own processor millet, founder and chairman of lei jun says, chip is the commanding heights in mobile phone industry, have the autonomy on the core technology, the company can go far.

'the xiaomi model is an innovative model,' said Mr. Lei confidently.

The production of its own processor, "thepapers1", has become the fourth in the world to produce processors and mobile phones, following apple, samsung and huawei.

Why is xiaomi on the road to self-made chips? Lei jun comes down to two reasons:

First, the chip is the commanding heights of the mobile phone industry technology, is the tip of the pyramid of science and technology, if you want to become a great company in the industry, will have the autonomy on the core technology, the company can go far.

The stark truth is that xiaomi has lagged far behind samsung, huawei and apple.

Second, the semiconductor industry cannot be completed without scale. In 2014, xiaomi had enough users to quickly form a scale, so three years ago xiaomi started thinking about chips and investing in chips.

Lei jun believed that Internet thinking is the key to the success of millet since research chips, millet 2 and a half years ago began to say to do chip, adopt unique Internet startup mode, millet has set up a wholly owned subsidiary, also give the team a part of the equity incentive, encourage everyone to use the Internet fast iterative, do a good job in basic, first step run, this is also a model of the Internet.

Lei jun says, the whole mobile phone industry in the trend of development of lighter, millet choose 8 core processor, the size of nuclear structure, ensures the performance experience of reducing power consumption at the same time, the millet also choose mature 28 nm process technology, the optimization of the chip size and layout, and finally on the scale of production, can be more mature and stable technical route.

The surging S1 processor USES eight nuclear architecture, positioning and middle, have a smooth production and issued by the carrying and millet new flagship camera phone millet 5 c, this app millet phone first chips, price 1499 yuan.