[dleslie]

Optimistically, the exposure of backdoors in the firmware may cause Intel to patch and close them.

Realistically, Intel will patch the firmware and replace the backdoors with new ones.

[intelleak]

Besides the backdoors I mean, I was thinking about performance or usability improvements...

[eitland]

Might finally get certain big PC vendors to consider using AMD which will increase competition and make sure we get better hardware in the future..?

[mhh__]

Other than disabling security features, Intel already publish extensive optimization manuals, so I don't think there's anything to go on here.