Xiaomi

小米 / 小米集團

Supplies AI-enabled smartphones, connected-home devices, and electric vehicles through a massive consumer ecosystem, serving as a major deployment endpoint for edge AI models.

HKEX: 1810 (Hong Kong dollar trading counter)
HKEX: 81810 (Renminbi trading counter)
Profile as of September 12, 2026
#68 in the AsiaAI Tech Index
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Xiaomi combines large-scale consumer-device distribution with a growing EV business and a broad AIoT platform to deploy its own software and silicon. Its central tension is that this massive consumer-AI deployment channel remains exposed to intense handset and EV competition, external semiconductor supply, and geopolitical constraints on advanced-node chip development.

Key figures

Revenue FY2025: RMB457.3 billion
Revenue growth FY2025: 25.0%
Operating margin FY2025: 10.5%
Net income FY2025: RMB41.6 billion
R&D spend FY2025: RMB33.1 billion (7.2% of revenue)
Capital expenditure FY2025: RMB18.2 billion
Market capitalization Sep 12, 2026: HK$678.4 billion Estimate
Smartphone shipments FY2025: 165.2 million
Connected IoT devices Dec 31, 2025: 1,079.2 million
Global monthly active users Dec 2025: 754.1 million
Smart EV deliveries FY2025: 411,082

Overview

Xiaomi was founded in 2010 and has grown into a massive consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company. It operates a vast ecosystem spanning smartphones, tablets, wearables, smart-home devices, and electric vehicles. The company is headquartered in Beijing and operates globally, maintaining a top-three position in global smartphone shipments. Its recent expansion into smart electric vehicles represents a significant evolution of its hardware portfolio.

Rather than supplying AI compute infrastructure, Xiaomi is primarily an edge-AI and connected-device company. Its structural position relies on the scale and breadth of its consumer deployment environment, which shares account identity, device connectivity, software distribution, and user interaction data across categories. With over a billion connected IoT devices and hundreds of millions of monthly active users, Xiaomi provides a distribution base for device-level AI functions that many single-category device makers cannot match.

The AI angle

Xiaomi earns revenue from AI indirectly through device replacement, premiumization, higher attachment of connected devices, and its rapidly growing smart-EV business. It integrates AI into its ecosystem through products like Xiaomi HyperOS, the XiaoAI assistant, MiMo foundation models, and Xiaomi HAD assisted-driving software.

The company is also expanding its internal silicon capabilities, notably with the self-developed XRING O1 mobile application processor, which entered mass production in May 2025. Xiaomi has allocated RMB13.5 billion to its development and plans at least RMB50 billion of chip-design investment over the next decade.

While it does not publicly disclose revenue from models, AI agents, or AI chips separately, its massive installed base of smartphones, connected-home users, and EV owners serves as a primary deployment channel for proprietary AI features. This edge-deployment strategy allows Xiaomi to capture value from AI without competing directly in the merchant AI-server or cloud-infrastructure markets.

Technology and moat

Xiaomi's differentiated asset is not a leading-edge general-purpose AI accelerator or an advanced foundry process, but the scale and breadth of its consumer deployment environment. HyperOS provides the technical integration layer across Xiaomi phones, IoT devices, and vehicles, while MiMo models and the miclaw mobile agent make that layer more agentic.

This ecosystem is difficult to replicate because it requires years of device-category expansion, retail distribution, compatible software interfaces, user accounts, and ongoing hardware refresh cycles. However, it remains less defensible than Apple's premium hardware-software integration in high-income markets or Huawei's domestic software, semiconductor, and enterprise ecosystem in China. Xiaomi's advantage lies in lower-price ecosystem bundling and faster exposure to China's connected-device market, rather than deep vertical semiconductor integration.

Five-pillar assessment

Scale and market position: A top-three global smartphone maker with over a billion connected IoT devices, hundreds of millions of active users, and a rapidly scaling electric vehicle business.
Technology and R&D: Strong in consumer-system integration, device engineering, EV software, and increasingly application-processor design, though reliant on external foundries for advanced manufacturing.
Supply-chain centrality: Highly dependent on Qualcomm for mobile chipsets and reportedly TSMC for advanced processor manufacturing, while partnering with Leica for mobile imaging.
Financial momentum: Strong FY2025 growth driven by a 200% increase in smart EV deliveries and steady IoT expansion, despite slight declines in smartphone unit shipments.
Governance and quality: An independent, founder-influenced company with a weighted voting rights structure, transparent financial reporting, and standard offshore holding-company architecture.

Supply chain and relationships

Xiaomi relies heavily on external silicon vendors and foundries for much of its device output. Qualcomm is a major supplier, identifying Xiaomi as a customer representing 10% or more of its fiscal-2025 consolidated revenue, confirming material dependence on Qualcomm handset and IoT chipsets. Xiaomi also depends on display, memory, camera, battery, automotive, contract-manufacturing, and logistics supply chains.

For its proprietary XRING processors, Reuters reports that TSMC manufactures the newer XRING O3 on a 3-nanometer process, though neither company has confirmed this arrangement. Xiaomi does not publicly name its largest end customers because its principal products are sold through consumer channels, distributors, operators, e-commerce platforms, and retail stores, making its revenue highly diversified across the consumer base.

Suppliers

QualcommXiaomi represents 10% or more of Qualcomm's FY2025 revenue
TSMCReportedly manufactures XRING O3 on a 3-nm process

Partners

Leica CameraStrategic co-creation model for mobile imaging
GoogleHistoricalAndroid OS and mobile services access

Competitors

AppleInferredCompetes in smartphones, tablets, wearables, and premium devices
Samsung ElectronicsInferredCompetes across smartphones, tablets, wearables, and appliances
HuaweiInferredCompetes in China smartphones, smart-home platforms, and EVs
OPPOInferredCompetes in Android smartphones, wearables, and tablets
vivoInferredCompetes in Android smartphones, wearables, and tablets
BYDInferredCompetes in China electric vehicles
TeslaInferredCompetes in electric vehicles and assisted-driving features
Li AutoInferredCompetes in China smart EVs
XPengInferredCompetes in China smart EVs and autonomous-driving

Geopolitics and risk

Xiaomi's XRING program and premium-device roadmap depend on access to leading foundry capacity, electronic-design automation tools, IP, and advanced packaging that can be affected by United States and allied-country export controls. Its reported reliance on TSMC for 3-nanometer XRING O3 production makes access to leading offshore fabrication strategically relevant and exposes it to Taiwan Strait disruption risks.

Additionally, Xiaomi operates global smartphone and IoT businesses with material positions across Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and India. This broad international footprint makes the company vulnerable to import restrictions, local data rules, patent disputes, and brand-security scrutiny in multiple jurisdictions.

Risk matrix
Risk	Severity	Why it matters
Advanced semiconductor export controls	High	XRING program depends on access to leading foundry capacity, EDA tools, and IP.
Reliance on external chip suppliers	High	Merchant semiconductor supply remains material, with heavy reliance on Qualcomm.
Taiwan Strait disruption	High	Depends on global semiconductor supply chains and reportedly uses TSMC for XRING production.
China smartphone competition	High	Smartphone revenue fell 2.8% in FY2025 amid intense competition and declining ASPs.
EV execution and automotive quality	High	Rapid scale-up makes delivery quality, safety incidents, and product recalls financially material.
China EV pricing pressure	High	Competes in a market characterized by rapid product cycles and intensive sales incentives.
Data, AI and automotive regulation	Medium	Exposed to China rules on personal information, generative AI, mapping, and vehicle data.
Overseas political and regulatory friction	Medium	Vulnerable to import restrictions, local data rules, and patent disputes globally.

Governance and ownership

Xiaomi is a Cayman Islands-incorporated, Hong Kong-listed company with a weighted voting rights structure. It is an independent, founder-influenced company, not a state-owned enterprise. Lei Jun serves as chairman and chief executive officer, exercising significant influence through his founder status, executive control, and the weighted voting rights framework.

The board includes executive, non-executive, and independent non-executive directors. It reports under Hong Kong listing rules, Cayman Islands incorporation requirements, and Chinese operating-company regulations, with PricewaterhouseCoopers serving as its auditor for FY2025. Its governance posture is typical of a Hong Kong-listed China technology company with substantial domestic operating exposure.

What to watch

Whether Xiaomi discloses material XRING O3 device volumes, foundry capacity, or a broader rollout beyond flagship models.
Whether cumulative XRING O1-powered device shipments continue to scale beyond the one million units cited.
Whether the promised RMB60 billion of AI investment produces separately identifiable revenue or retention gains.
Whether the Smart EV segment retains positive income from operations amid intense price competition.
Whether smartphone gross margin recovers from 10.9% despite higher key-component prices.
Whether connected AIoT devices and Xiaomi Home app active users continue to grow.

Recent developments

August 24, 2026Introduced the XRING O3, which Reuters reports is manufactured by TSMC on a 3-nanometer process.
March 24, 2026Released MiMo-V2-Pro, MiMo-V2-Omni, and MiMo-V2-TTS, and began beta testing the Xiaomi miclaw mobile agent.
December 31, 2025Closed FY2025 with revenue of RMB457.3 billion and 411,082 smart EV deliveries.
December 1, 2025Unveiled MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-source mixture-of-experts foundation model with 309 billion total parameters.
May 20, 2025Lei Jun announced mass production of the Xiaomi XRING O1 application processor.

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About this profile

Compiled with AI-assisted research from company filings, market data, and published reporting as of September 12, 2026, then reviewed by AsiaAI.FYI. Figures marked Estimate are not company-reported. Check primary filings before relying on any number.

Confidence: B. Audited FY2025 financial statements and operating metrics are high confidence, while supplier relationships, customer concentration, and XRING production arrangements rely on press reporting.

Main sources: Xiaomi FY2025 annual report; Xiaomi FY2025 annual-results announcement and investor presentation; Xiaomi quarterly-results announcements; Hong Kong Stock Exchange market-data page; Reuters reporting; Qualcomm fiscal-2025 annual filing.

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Position in the AI stack

A major consumer endpoint for edge-model deployment, integrating AI into smartphones, smart-home devices, and electric vehicles.

Legal name: Xiaomi Corporation
Headquarters: Beijing, People's Republic of China
Founded: 2010
Founders: Lei Jun
Lin Bin
Li Wanqiang
Zhou Guangping
Liu De
Li Qi
Wong Kong-Kat
Leadership: Lei Jun / 雷軍, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Lin Bin / 林斌, Vice Chairman of the Board and Executive Director
Employees: 56,231 (2025-09-30)
Ownership: Publicly listed
Incorporated: Cayman Islands
Listings: HKEX: 1810 (Hong Kong dollar trading counter)
HKEX: 81810 (Renminbi trading counter)
Business: Smartphones, AIoT devices, and smart electric vehicles
Sector: Automotive & Mobility
Consumer Devices & IoT
Internet Platforms & Cloud
Website: www.mi.com