Asus, HP, and Lenovo are all planning to introduce Snapdragon Mobile PC systems
at some unspecified time in the future, for some unspecified price.
Dropping prices temporarily until a newcomer is strangled is something we've heard of in the past, but this time the competitor has a huge and growing mobile market, so the threat and lower prices are likely to stay around for a long time.
With current super bloated state of the web, Electron apps and other disasters? Probably all of them.
I could even fantasize about a scenario where Intel: "if you launch an ARM laptop we'll raise our prices" Microsoft: "fine, we will switch to AMD"
Information about Intel internal architectures is highly confidential, but there are remotely related technologies that are generic and public, for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming
Microcode (which is one of those highly confidential things that both Intel and AMD hold close and dear) is about doing an on-the-fly CISC to RISC transformation because you realized that the legacy x86 ISA is an absolute pain to handle (but you aren't willing to give it up).
Register renaming is a key part of high performance ISA emulation. The x64 has 16 gp registers but the internal RISC normally has 80. Of course this is also a key part of OOO and alike as you mentioned.
At least if they're sharing the spec with other manufacturers, we'll possibly get some reasonably priced hardware.
Myself, I'm crossing my fingers for some Raspberry Pi-class machines that'll work with this.
wondering what hacks are required to boot and run windows server on a phone.