While Intel may be relieved by Qualcomm’s apparent backtracking in the server processor space, the high profile launch of its rival’s ARM-based Centriq platform did sound a warning bell. Of course, Intel has the incumbent advantage in servers, and even a company with Qualcomm’s size and R&D smarts will find it a long, hard process to establish itself in that business. But on the other hand, Qualcomm showed how an ARM-based platform could be optimal for some of the emerging, high growth areas of the server space, which are particularly reliant on power, cost and space efficiency, but also on optimal performance for challenging tasks. In the early days of ARM-based server processors, the market was seen as a head-to-head…