If there’s one thing Dell’s bid for EMC tells us, it’s that the big money is in the data center. Dell played around with mobile devices, but now sees its future at the other end of the technology chain, in hyperscale servers and storage. Many chipmakers feel the same way, and this week saw Qualcomm, the king of mobile device silicon, making its first assault on Intel’s server kingdom. The challenge to Intel in its server heartland has been gathering pace. Early, 32-bit designs from pioneers like the lamented Calxeda had limited impact, but since ARM introduced its 64-bit architecture, companies like Cavium, Applied Micro and EZchip have shown off high performance system-on-chip designs. But Qualcomm has held back, apart…