Nothing new here, but the article (link below) summarizes the potential Intel/Qualcomm wars quite nicely:
Intel’s crown jewel these days is in the data center. It’s one of its fastest growing and most profitable divisions for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker. In 2015, its data center division contributed $16 billion in revenue with $7.8 billion in profit. Its processing chips for the data center has a 99% market share, and for that, Intel can charge huge price tags for companies to get hold of that silicon.
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But one of Intel’s biggest customer here, Google, is eager for more competition and it’s looking at rival chip maker Qualcomm for help. At Qualcomm’s analyst day this Thursday, Google will likely voice its support for processors based on the ARM chip architecture (instead of Intel’s x86 chip architecture) in a video, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Bloomberg was first to report that Google is poised to endorse Qualcomm’s server chip efforts last week, but no official partnership between the two companies is set to be announced this week, sources told FORBES. Still, the planned video does show that Google is interested in a player like Qualcomm succeeding. Bloomberg also reported that the companies are already working together on a server chip and that Google will use the Qualcomm processors only if it meets certain performance benchmarks.
Read the full story here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/02/08/watch-out-intel-google-is-cozying-up-to-qualcomm-in-the-data-center