Intel preps 15-Watt 'Sandy Bridge' for micro servers

Unlike AMD Intel has deep pockets for R&D. The Register reports that Intel developed a new Sandy Bridge variant with a low 15W TDP especially for microservers which are suitable for dedicated hosting and Web infrastructure workloads. Those still growing niche amount for 10% of the server market and is the target of some ARM-based servermakers like Calxeda. Intel is not giving up without a fight and those ARM-server will have to be decent priced and have better cycles/per watt performance to stay ahead of Intel. Fair competition is fine, only problem is Intel did not really like [b]fair[/b] competition in the past.