Confusing headline?
"Forges" implies fakes... but that doesn't seem to be the case?
Chip maker Marvell has notched up its third public design win for an ARM server, this one at Baidu, one of the two big search engine giants in China. Avi Liebermensch, manager of server products at the maker of ARM processors and other kinds of chips, tells El Reg that the Baidu server is based on the company's Armada XP …
Forge:
verb (used with object)
1. to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
2. to form or make, especially by concentrated effort: to forge a friendship through mutual trust.
3. to imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; fabricate a forgery.
(source: Dictionary.com:)
It has been pretty amazing to see how fast the focus in so many segments has went from raw overall performance to performance per watt. Intel consistently has stayed a generation ahead of everyone else fabrication wise (but not low power design wise obviously) so they do still have that. Still they may be forced to rejoin the ARM market to stay relevant eventually and boy wouldn't that be piss on their Wheaties.