What's nice with Intel is that Apple will never be powerful enough to prevent them from publishing very early roadmaps which we will hence comment with delight.
Their latest one mentioned new CPUs. So, you'll see that by mid-2007 the Kentsfield, a high end CPU, shall arrive. It should not derive from the PIV technology which has reached a dead end by now, but from the Pentium M which demonstrated it was possible to create something powerful without an extreme increase of frequency.
This would probably be a good thing to start with for replacing G5 Powermacs.
Still about Intel, x86secret published an article about Intel Dual Core CPUs, which will make you familiar with those. Keep in mind though that those who shall equip our Apple branded machines will probably be from the following generation.
http://www.x86-secret.com/
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