I think this is GREAT news, because it implies the following. a. - Intel and AMD losing their pseudo-monoply on PC/laptop chips, perhaps enabling bringing some

I think this is GREAT news, because it implies the following. a. - Intel and AMD losing their pseudo-monoply on PC/laptop chips, perhaps enabling bringing some prices down. b. - Mainstream PCs abandoning the old x86 (+IA64, AMD64) instruction set for a more modern instruction set which (i guess) enables more modern, more power-efficient architectures. but much more exciting than the above is that... c. - The jump to a more power-efficient CPU will enable me to have a nice desktop PC with, say, 128 cores, and with no extravagant cooling system or ridiculously high power consumption (I need to pay the power bills, anything that will be on for at least 8 hours a day will be watched for power consumption.). I know that there are already ways to take advantage of GPUs, but they are for specific operations. A desktop PC with a huge lot of cores will bring more generalized performance improvement. And TRUE hardcore multitasking... d. - This will push all vendors and Open Source projects to improve on their compiler support for that architecture.