Completely agree with your sentiment. Just one small nit-pick: Intel doesn't use SPARC, but a much more obscure, less documented, and very proprietary ARC core [1, 2 & 3]. Ostensibly it was chosen due to having some excellent low-power modes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_%28processor%29

[2] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1248611

[3] http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html