This is a timeline of Xiaomi, a manufacturer and distributor of mobile phones.
Big picture
Time period
Key developments at Xiaomi
2010–2013
Xiaomi is founded and releases its first three phones – Mi1, Mi2, and Mi3.
2014–present
By Q2 2014, Xiaomi has shipped 14 percent of China's market (15 million devices), beating out Samsung as top smartphone manufacturer, which shipped slightly more than 13 million.[1] In 2014, Xiaomi starts internationalizing outside of China and expands beyond smartphones by going into tablets and cameras.
Xiaomi announces the Mi3 phone, with one version powered by the Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AB) and another version by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 chipset.[7]
2013
September 25
Company
Xiaomi announces plans to open its first service center in Beijing.[8]
2014
February
Internationalization
Xiaomi announces its expansion outside China, with its first stop in Singapore.[9]
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.[10]
2014
April
Company
Xiaomi 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.[11]
Xiaomi announces it will invest US$1 billion in television content building.[13]
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[14][15] raising over US$1 billion
2015
March
Product
Xiaomi announces that it will start selling the Yi Camera.[16]
2015
April
International
Xiaomi 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.[17]
2015
June 30
International
Xiaomi 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.[18]
2016
February 26
Product
Xiaomi launches the Mi5, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820.[19]
2016
May 10
Product
Xiaomi launches the Mi Max, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650/652 processor.[20]
2016
October 26
Product
Xiaomi launches the Mi MIX, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor.[21]