Intel’s announced that its cloud-computing efforts this year will be centered on a new server that uses upcoming Nehalem technology. Nehalem is Intel’s new chip architecture currently used only in its Core i7 desktop processors. Mega data centers potentially mean mega-growth. The world’s largest chipmaker sees between 20 percent and 25 percent of server shipments going to mega data centers by 2012. Intel’s goal is to optimize this massive mesh of server hardware. Other technologies that Intel will roll out with Nehalem server chips include Virtual Machine Device Queues.

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