Timeline of Xiaomi

This is a timeline of Xiaomi Corporation, an electronics and software company in China, and a manufacturer and distributor of mobile phones and smartphones.

Full timeline
timeline of Xiaomi Corporation
yearmonth & dateevent typedetails
2010April 6companyXiaomi is co-founded by eight partners.[1]
2010August 16productXiaomi officially launches its first Android-based firmware, known as MIUI.[2]
2010DecemberfundingXiaomi raises $41 million in funding from its Series A round.[1]
2011AugustproductThe Xiaomi Mi1 smartphone is announced. It is supplied with Xiaomi's MIUI firmware, based on Android, and resembles both Samsung's TouchWiz and Apple's iOS.[3]
2011DecemberfundingXiaomi raises $90 million in funding from its Series B round.[1]
2012JunefundingXiaomi raises $216 million in funding from its Series C round.[1]
2012AugustproductXiaomi announces the Xiaomi Mi2 smartphone. The phone is the first phone to be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064, a 1.5 GHz quad-core Krait chip featuring with 2 GB of RAM and the Adreno 320 GPU.[4]
2013SeptemberproductXiaomi announces the Mi3 phone, with one version powered by the Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AB) and another version by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 chipset.[5]
2013September 25companyXiaomi announces plans to open its first service centre in Beijing.[6]
2014FebruaryinternationalisationXiaomi announces its expansion outside China, with its first stop in Singapore.[7]
2014March 17productXiaomi 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.[8]
2014AprilcompanyXiaomi purchases the internet domain Mi.com for a record US$3.6 million , the most expensive domain name ever bought in China, replacing Xiaomi.com as the official Xiaomi domain.[9]
2014AugustproductXiaomi releases the Xiaomi Mi 4i.[10]
2014NovemberproductXiaomi announces it will invest US$1 billion in television content building.[11]
2014DecemberfundingXiaomi 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,[12] raising over US$1 billion
2015MarchproductXiaomi announces that it will start selling the Yi Camera.[13]
2015AprilinternationalXiaomi expands into India, announcing that it will make its Mi devices available through two of India's major e-commerce sites, and through offline retailers for the first time.[14]
2015June 30internationalXiaomi announces its expansion into Brazil with the launch of locally manufactured Redmi 2, the first time the company sells a smartphone outside Asia or assembles one outside China.[15]
2016March 3productXiaomi launches Redmi Note 3 Pro in India. The first smartphone to powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor.[16]
2016February 26productXiaomi launches the Mi5, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820.[17]
2016May 10productXiaomi launches the Mi Max, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650/652 processor.[18]
2016October 26productXiaomi launches the Mi MIX, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor.[19]
2017April 19productXiaomi launches the Mi6, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor including the latest MIUI 9.

References
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  2. "小米联合创始人、副总裁洪锋谈MIUI设计成长之路" [Hong Feng, co-founder and vice president of Xiaomi, talks about the growth of MIUI design]. www.CSDN.net. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  3. "Xiaomi phone with MIUI OS: a $310 Android with 1.5GHz dual-core SoC and other surprises". www.Engadget.com. Engadget. 16 August 2011.
  4. "Xiaomi Phone 2 review". www.Engadget.com. Engadget. 14 November 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  5. "Xiaomi announces the MI3 - Tegra 4 and MSM8974AB inside". www.AnandTech.com. AnandTech. 5 September 2013.
  6. Bischoff, Paul. "Xiaomi opens biggest ever service centre in Beijing, looks like a store". www.TechInAsia.com. Tech In Asia. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  7. "Xiaomi to set up international headquarters in Singapore". www.HardwareZone.com.sg. HardwareZone. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  8. "XiaoMi CEO Lei Jun unveils RedMi Note (aka HongMi Note) and partial specs". GSMInsider.com. GSM Insider. March 2014. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014.
  9. "XiaoMi purchased Mi.com domain for a record $3.6 million, new URL for global users". GSMInsider.com. GSM Insider. April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
  10. "Xiaomi Mi 4 - full phone specifications". www.GSMArena.com. GSMArena. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  11. "China's Xiaomi says to invest $1 billion in TV content building". www.Reuters.com. Reuters. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  12. "The 'Apple of China' raises over $1 billion, valuation sky-rockets to more than $45 billion". www.BusinessInsider.com. Business Insider. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  13. "Why Xiaomi terrifies the rest of the tech world". Time.com. Time. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  14. Russell, Jon (7 April 2015). "Xiaomi expands its online retail channels in India and inks first offline sales deals". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  15. Chao, Loretta (1 July 2015). "Xiaomi launches its first smartphone outside Asia". www.WSJ.com. The Wall Street Journal.
  16. "Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 to launch in India on March 3". IndiaToday.InToday.in. India Today.
  17. "Xiaomi Mi 5 - full phone specifications". www.GSMArena.com. GSMArena. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  18. "Xiaomi Mi Max - full phone specifications". www.GSMArena.com. GSMArena. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  19. "Xiaomi Mi MIX - full phone specifications". www.GSMArena.com. GSMArena. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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