{"id":867009,"date":"2026-08-24T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:16:13","slug":"xiaomi-18-fold-is-officially-coming-in-september-with-the-monstrous-xring-o3-chipset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867009\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next foldable smartphone from Xiaomi is not going to be called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_mix_fold_5_spotted_in_the_wild_running_hyperos_4-news-73787.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xiaomi Mix Fold 5<\/a>, but Xiaomi 18 Fold. The company has officially confirmed this. The device is going to be unveiled in September. It will be the first to use Xiaomi&#8217;s new Xring O3 chipset, the successor to the Xring O1 from last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787598971_95_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Xring O3 managed to score 5,228,014 points in the AnTuTu V11 benchmark. That&#8217;s more than any other smartphone SoC today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787598971_8_gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The SoC features a deca-core CPU with two C1-Ultra cores clocked at up to 4.35GHz, four C1-Premium cores clocked at up to 3.68GHz, and four C1-Pro cores clocked at up to 3.15GHz.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787598972_295_gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Geekbench 6.5, it manages a 3,945 single-core score and a 15,221 multi-core score. The Apple A19 Pro still does better in single-core, but is nowhere near the Xring O3 in multi-core.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787598972_116_gsmarena_004.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In select benchmarks, the GPU has managed to be 85%, 94%, and 182% better than the Xring O1&#8217;s, respectively. It also beats the Apple A19 Pro in all three tests that Xiaomi has shared (you can see them below). The Xring O3 supports LPDDR6 RAM with 113.8GB\/s bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787598973_611_gsmarena_005.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi 18 Fold is officially coming in September with the monstrous Xring O3 chipset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it seems like Xiaomi&#8217;s self-developed chipset has really grown up and will be a serious competitor to the best that Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple have to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UniverseIce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next foldable smartphone from Xiaomi is not going to be called Xiaomi Mix Fold 5, but Xiaomi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-867009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}