Not me who says it, but Sebastian Anthony from Extremetech.

And I think he is right, but not because Motorola goes in.

A SoC x86 compatible system means smartphones, tablets, handhelds, netbooks... than can run whatever x86 thing you want to, with no emulation at all.

You can have a Windows or Linux machine running in the size of a N900.

They can say "wait, you already can do that", but this time is different because this is native. Linux does get coded with x86 in mind and then ported to other platforms. Linux gets updates first, and then the other platforms. Also, when you have the kernel as much as optimized as possible to the SoC core, you then can focus to the rest of the hardware.

So when they start to release tablets with this SoC and opensource-driven hardware, developing for *any* other platform will be the same that today is to develop for exotic systems: a challenge.