Perhaps in the future Intel will be making "N core" ARM chips for data center blades, where N is a largish number with a killer bus / cache stack attached??? S

Perhaps in the future Intel will be making "N core" ARM chips for data center blades, where N is a largish number with a killer bus / cache stack attached??? Something to be said for low power systems to pass all that relatively simple web traffic (JSON -> prepared statement ... row -> JSON) between the outside world and the databases, which might still well benefit from higher power / performance x86 chips. (who knows, maybe 128 low power cores serves a database better than x86, also, I can't say -- although being charged per-core by Oracle for little cores would really suck) I'm a software guy, so feel free to expand on why this is BS, or not, hardware guys/gals.