Qualcomm announces desktop class ARM CPU & Apple announce "scary fast" event for next week

Qualcomm has finally announced a product based on their acquisition of Nuvia, the CPU startup co-founded by a bunch of senior Apple engineers. The Snapdragon X Elite is an ARM SoC designed for laptops running Windows, probably manufactured by TSMC on their N4P process, has 12x "Oryon" cores running at 3.8GHz (can boost up to 4.3GHz on 2x cores), supports rather speedy LPDDR5x-8533 RAM and everything else you'd expect from a modern SoC. No performance figures but Qualcomm claims it is "up to 2x faster than the competition" while using a third of the power - dunno what they're comparing it against (Intel laptop CPUs? Apple Silicon SoCs??) but we will find out more in mid-2024 when the Snapdragon X Elite hits the market. Oh and Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC too, coming to an Android phone near you early next year. Meanwhile, Apple announced an event for the 30th of October dubbed "Scary Fast" where the rumour mill reckons there will be new iMacs, potentially packing a M3 SoC.