Difference between revisions of "Timeline of Xiaomi"

This is a '''timeline of [[Xiaomi]]''', a manufacturer and distributor of [[mobile phones]].

| 2010–2013 || [[Xiaomi]] is founded and releases its first three phones – Mi1, Mi2, and Mi3.  

| 2010 || August 16 || Product || Xiaomi officially launches its first [[Android (operating system)|Android]]-based firmware [[MIUI]].<ref>{{cite web|title=小米联合创始人、副总裁洪锋谈MIUI设计成长之路|url=http://www.csdn.net/article/2013-08-29/2816751|publisher=csdn.net|accessdate=October 3, 2013}}</ref>

| 2010 || December || Funding || Xiaomi raises $41 million in funding from its [[Series A]] round.<ref name="CB">{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/xiaomi#/entity |title=Xiaomi |newspaper=CB |date=  |author= |accessdate= June 12, 2016}}</ref>

| 2011 || August || Product || The [[Xiaomi Mi1]] [[smartphone]] is announced. It is shipped with Xiaomi's [[MIUI]] firmware, based on [[Android (operating system)|Android]], and resembles both [[Touchwiz|Samsung's TouchWiz]] and [[iOS|Apple's iOS]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Xiaomi Phone with MIUI OS: a $310 Android with 1.5GHz dual-core SoC and other surprises|work=Engadget|date=August 16, 2011|url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/16/xiaomi-m1-with-miui-os-a-310-phone-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-soc-a/}}</ref>

| 2011 || December || Funding || Xiaomi raises $90 million in funding from its [[Series B]] round.<ref name="CB"/>

| 2012|| June || Funding || Xiaomi raises $216 million in funding from its [[Series C]] round.<ref name="CB"/>

| 2012 || August || Product || Xiaomi announces the [[Xiaomi Mi2]] [[smartphone]]. The phone is the first phone to be powered by [[Qualcomm|Qualcomm's]] [[Snapdragon (system on chip)|Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064]], a 1.5&nbsp;GHz quad-core Krait chip featuring with 2&nbsp;GB of RAM and the Adreno 320 GPU.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/14/xiaomi-phone-2-mi-two-review/|title=Xiaomi Phone 2 Review|publisher=[[engadget]] | date = 2012-11-14 | accessdate = 2013-08-15}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Successstory.com_June_12_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://successstory.com/companies/xiaomi |title=Xiaomi Profile, History, Founder, Founded, Ceo |newspaper=Successstory.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= June 12, 2016}}</ref>

| 2013 || September || Product || Xiaomi announces the [[Xiaomi Mi3|Mi3]] phone, with one version powered by the Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AB) and another version by [[NVIDIA]]'s [[Tegra 4]] chipset.<ref>{{cite web|title=Xiaomi Announces the MI3 - Tegra 4 and MSM8974AB inside|work=AnandTech|date=September 5, 2013|url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/7276/xiaomi-announces-the-mi3-tegra-4-and-msm8974ab-inside}}</ref>  

| 2013 || September 25 || Company ||  Xiaomi announces plans to open its first service center in [[Beijing]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Bischoff |first=Paul |url=http://www.techinasia.com/xiaomi-store-beijing-opening-soon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xiaomi-store-beijing-opening-soon |title=Xiaomi opens biggest ever service center in Beijing, looks like a store |publisher=Techinasia.com |date= |accessdate=2013-09-26}}</ref>

| 2014 || March 17 || Product || Xiaomi announces the RedMi Note [[phablet]] (known as HongMi Note in some Asian markets). The RedMi Note has a 5.5-inch HD display with OGS technology and an octa-core processor from [[MediaTek]].<ref>{{cite web|title=XiaoMi CEO Lei Jun Unveils RedMi Note (aka HongMi Note) And Partial Specs|url=http://gsminsider.com/2014/03/redmi-note-hongmi-note-official-specs-price-news/}}</ref>

| 2014 || August || Product ||  Xiaomi releases the [[Xiaomi Mi4i|Xiaomi Mi 4i]].<ref name="MyUser_Gsmarena.com_June_12_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_4-6518.php |title=Xiaomi Mi 4 - Full phone specifications |newspaper=Gsmarena.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= June 12, 2016}}</ref>

| 2014 || December || Funding || Xiaomi completes a round of equity financing led by Hong Kong-based technology fund All-Stars Investment Limited, a fund run by former [[Morgan Stanley]] analyst Richard Ji<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allstarsinvestment.com|title= Team Profile >> All-Stars Investment Limited|publisher= www.allstarsinvestment.com|accessdate= 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.businessinsider.com/xiaomi-raises-over-1-billion-valuation-exceeds-45-billion-2014-12?op=1|title= The ‘Apple Of China’ Raises Over $1 Billion, Valuation Skyrockets To More Than $45 Billion|publisher= www.businessinsider.com|date=2014-12-20|accessdate= 2014-12-20}}</ref> raising over US$1 billion

| 2015 || March || Product || Xiaomi announces that it will start selling the [[Yi Camera]].<ref name="MyUser_Time.com_June_12_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://time.com/3740335/xiaomi/ |title=Why Xiaomi Terrifies the Rest of the Tech World |newspaper=Time.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= June 12, 2016}}</ref>

| 2015 || June 30 || International || Xiaomi announces its expansion into Brazil with the launch of locally manufactured [[Redmi|Redmi 2]], the first time the company sells a smartphone outside Asia or assembles one outside China.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chao|first1=Loretta|title=Xiaomi Launches Its First Smartphone Outside Asia|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/xiaomi-smartphone-launch-in-brazil-is-first-outside-asia-1435681937?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_moreTopStories|website=The Wall Street Journal|date=1 July 2015}}</ref>

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