Intel's Next Target
Intel executives spent an unusual amount of time at this year's Intel Developer Forum talking about enterprise servers--and for good reason. After nearly a decade of trying to make inroads into the high-performance area dominated by companies like IBM and Sun Microsystems, Intel finally may have found an opening.
What's changed is that the battle is becoming less about creating the fastest processors on the planet. For many companies, it doesn't matter anymore; there's plenty of processing power for most applications. The real key these days is saving the most power and creating the fewest bottlenecks, and these are areas where Intel ( INTC - news - people ) shines as well as any company making computer processors today.
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