It's an ARM-designed CPU core, made in Taiwan. Very little difference from say MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity SoC just announced earlier because it is made on TSMC N3P instead of N2.

I don't think they have any angle with that.

> I can feel the scores of messages being sent to the federal government from lobbyists saying what a threat Chinese hardware is to national security.

The motivation for such messages may be greedy, but it doesn't mean the facts aren't wrong:

1. As a practical matter, no one can audit systems so thoroughly to determine a system built by an adversary won't act adversarially.

2. Free market incentives work counter to national security all the time, in many ways (e.g. causing domestic capabilities to wither and die).

Xiaomi doesn't do business in the US anyway.

same playbook than Huawei

I wonder if the Trump T2 phone will get this chip.

I mean, yeah?

It's generally a bad idea to use information-handling hardware from your main geopolitical rival.

And everybody forgets the true power of Apple: scale. Can that supposed miracle chip be readily found in million of phones within 6 months? Or will Xiaomi keep selling 90% of their phones with 2 year old chips, reserving these chips to their 2000$ foldables?

This post serves Xiaomi because it implies competitiveness when the reality on the ground will remain unremarkable, and it helps fearmongers because they can latch on to Xiaomi's attempt to appear competitive.