In Depth: Xiaomi to Stay the Course on Chip Design After Rival Bails

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that looks at mainland smartphone makers’ efforts to design their own chips amid China’s campaign to create a self-sufficient semiconductor industry. Click here to read about how Oppo Co. Ltd.’s chipmaking arm Zeku abruptly shut down in May, in a blow to industry morale that has investors wondering which of China’s 3,000 other chip design hopefuls will be next.