Thing is, if it makes it to market by Intel, it will most likely end up in a PowerPC chip. If the chip is powerful enough, I can foresee the possibility of Macs reverting back to PowerPC (If IBM decides to reenter the desktop computing market) which would be a huge crush performance wise against x86, and might even prompt Microsoft to dust off some old Windows NT PowerPC code and reimplement the port moving forward, which would be better for PC manufacturers as well because PowerPC is licensing free as opposed to x86.
Thing is, if it makes it to market by Intel, it will most likely end up in a PowerPC chip. If the chip is powerful enough, I can foresee the possibility of Macs reverting back to PowerPC (If IBM decides to reenter the desktop computing market) which would be a huge crush performance wise against x86, and might even prompt Microsoft to dust off some old Windows NT PowerPC code and reimplement the port moving forward, which would be better for PC manufacturers as well because PowerPC is licensing free as opposed to x86.