Xiaomi’s MIX Flip folding mechanism has been suspended!

According to a report by the blogger Digital Chat Station on May 4th, Xiaomi’s MIX Flip series of small foldable phones has been discontinued.

Currently, most mainstream manufacturers have gradually stopped producing small folding folding phones. Even though Xiaomi’s small folding phone has performed well globally, its market is still relatively small and its cost is not low. Compared to larger folding phones, it does not have an advantage in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Although the small folding phone has been suspended, the MIX Fold large folding series, which has been on hiatus for a year, is officially returning. The new phone is expected to be released in the third quarter (August-September) and may be named MIX Fold 5 (or possibly Xiaomi 18 Fold), codenamed “lhasa”.

One of the biggest highlights of this phone is that it is the first to use the self-developed Xuanjie O3 chip, which is the successor to Xiaomi’s self-developed SoC Xuanjie O1.

The O3 continues to use TSMC’s 3nm process, and reports indicate that its process technology has been upgraded to TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process N3P, thus missing out on TSMC’s latest 2nm process.

The CPU consists of one 4.05GHz X9 super core, four 3.42GHz A720 big cores, and three 3.02GHz A520 energy efficiency cores; the GPU also reaches 1.49GHz with a bandwidth of 9600MT/s.