My latest industry survey shows that Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship, the Xiaomi 16 Pro, set to launch in late 2025, is also adopting a metal mid-frame produced with Bright Laser Technologies (BLT)’s 3D printing technology. This points to an accelerating trend of using 3D printing for smartphone mid-frames. The advantage of producing smartphone mid-frames with 3D printing lies in its ability to leverage hollow designs, which reduce weight and enhance thermal performance without compromising structural strength. Production efficiency has historically been a hurdle for 3D printing, but as this bottleneck continues to ease, phone manufacturers will likely adopt the 3D printing once its benefits outweigh the costs, without requiring efficiency to match that of mainstream technologies. This shift echoes past innovations: before Apple pioneered CNC technology for making MacBook unibody metal casing, few believed such a process could scale to consumer electronics.$Xiaomi Corporation(XIACY.US)  $XIAOMI-W(01810.HK)