On Tuesday, the Chinese company Xiaomi revealed its very own chipset called Surge S1 that represents its first attempt at creating restrictive silicon to power its devices and slated to make a big appearance in the upcoming Mi 5c smartphone. Moreover, it is hitting the Chinese mid-range market with a cost of 1,499 yuan or about $220 on the third of March.

According to Yahoo Sport, Xiaomi is avoiding a course with an end goal in an effort that firmly integrates its hardware and software and of course its master core technologies behind its products, as indicated by the CEO Lei Jun. The Mi 5c features 5.15-inch with a 1080 display and a 94.4-percent NTSC range and 550 nit brightness.

As shared on Twitter by Xiaomi it suggests that Surge S1 might be snappier than the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 635, yet fall short of MediaTek's Helio P20. The 64-bit chipset that combines with two quad-core Cortex-A53 processors, one clocked at 2.2 GHz for high performance and the other 1.4 GHz for less demand usage.

Engadget added that Mi 5c comes with a 3GB LPDDR3 RAM plus a 64GB of eMMC 5.0 storage. Along with it, is a front-facing fingerprint reader, dual-Nano SIM slots, and a VoLTE support China Mobile radio. Because of its new chip's lower consumption of power, the Mi 5c will have a smaller 2,860 mAh battery, along with this, the device achieves a slimmer metallic body that measures 7.09mm thick.

For taking photos, Mi 5c will have a 14-bit image signal processor, in tandem with the company's own particular algorithm that aims to have a great enhance light sensitivity while lessen it noise. For the main camera, it features a 12 megapixel f/2.2 with 1.2um pixels, which is bigger than the standard 1.12um that offers on many recent smartphones. The Mi 5c will have its launch in China on Friday, however, the industry will watch how Xiaomi's efforts will shake in the real world and guessing what Surge-powered flagship can do.

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