Here we were, waiting for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S20 so we could see the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform, and along came Xiaomi with their announcement on February 13 that the Mi 10 - also based on the Snapdragon 865 - would be available (very) soon.

We waited days - not weeks - to get the Xiaomi flagship into our labs for teardown.

All of the Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro models we have seen so far adopt the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 platform and support LPDDR5. The phone model we used for this first teardown is the Mi 10 with 12 GB LPDDR5 + 256 GB UFS. It is the world’s first commercially available Snapdragon 865 platform phone, and the world’s first commercially available LPDDR5 we have seen.

This phone includes more new silicon, too; here is what we have found so far.