Intel is poised to ship its first chips for "microservers," a hot new category where it has been trailing its rival Advanced Micro Devices.
AMD says that Intel has been playing catch-up, particularly since it bought microserver pioneer SeaMicro for $334 million early this year. But Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, says it has actually been thinking about microservers -- which use Intel's low-power Atom microprocessors -- for a long time.
