Qualcomm Is Going After Intel and AMD in This Lucrative Market

The server CPU market has long been dominated by Intel (INTC 2.71%) and AMD (AMD 3.33%). Both companies make chips based on the x86 architecture. While there are other types of CPUs used for specialized purposes -- think IBM mainframes -- x86 reigns supreme in the data center. Software is compiled and optimized for x86 chips, which creates significant switching costs.Qualcomm (QCOM 3.06%) has already tried and failed once to bring chips based on the Arm architecture, which dominates the smartphone market, t ...