[SekstiNi]

> Apple Silicon was great because Apple had invested huge amounts of resources for a decade on smartphone processors first, not because they had some kind of geniuses on the project.

Given that they were confident enough to leave and start their own company, I'm not sure this is true. Indeed I wouldn't discount the value of high talent density.

> I’ll be skeptical of the hype until I see a real product.

They have shown real hardware demos [1] to reviewers already, and the numbers look solid. Obviously there are no comparisons vs M3 yet, but it seems promising.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21112/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-e...

[brokencode]

That Anandtech article was full of caveats about how the benchmarks are not typical and about how comparisons are not easy at this point.

Again, it seems promising, but we’ll find out a lot more once a product is actually released that can be fully benchmarked and reviewed.