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An employee shows off one of SeaMicro's pricey Intel Atom-based
servers.  (Source: Venture Beat) Intel says that ARM cores may
gain some ground in the laptop space but will not challenge it
in servers  Facing an onslaught of ultra-power efficient, highly
clocked, multi-core ARM CPUs from the likes of QualcommNVIDIA,
and Texas Instruments, Intel, the world's largest CPU maker, has
plenty to worry about.  But it's seemed remarkably unconcerned;
stating that its smartphone chips will equal ARM chips in power
performance and beat them in computing power by later this year.
 Now Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s data center unit
has gone on the record at a Morgan Stanley conference to say
that Intel's server business is in no danger from ARM.  Like
mobile devices, power efficiency is a key concern for servers.
 Businesses keenly watch how to minimize the power they use per
unit of computing power.  But Intel is convinced that businesses
won't be