

In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and networking gear.
It's not often that we see a new entrant in the mobile chipset industry; that's why it's exciting to see Xiaomi roll out its Xring O1 platform. Qualcomm and MediaTek effectively have a duopoly in this regard, and although Samsung is still chugging along with its Exynos designs, it isn't anywhere close to what the other two chip vendors manage to deliver on a consistent basis.