Digitimes today speculates on Apple's future Intel Chip roadmap. Basically they are saying that Snow Leopard's Grand Central feature sounds a lot like what Intel's Nahalem processor will be able to offer with more cores and more threads/core/cycle.
The main optimization Apple describes as a target for Snow Leopard is Grand Central, a technology it says will make all of OS X multi-core aware and optimize it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Apple also says Grand Central will make it easier for OS X software developers to create programs that make the most of multi-core platforms.
With the adoption of Nehalem, Apple's server and workstation configurations are likely to jump from eight threads (their current maximum) to 16 threads initially, with the potential to s
