Less than a year after Qualcomm announced its first commercial server SoC, it has demonstrated a product which pushes the boundaries of the fledgling ARM-based server processor category, and presents a serious challenge to Intel. It announced that it is sampling a 48-core chip made with the new 10nm FinFET process, in words which sounded just like an Intel proclamation. Intel has repeatedly harnessed its own process expertise, and control over its own manufacturing, to score points over its rivals and push the limits of a platform. Now a former Intel executive, Anand Chandrasekher, is head of Qualcomm’s new data center business, and he is showing that a fabless chip supplier can also play the process leapfrog game with which…