it will take a big player such as Google, Microsoft or Facebook with deep pockets to announce they are going to go with their own custom ARM server CPUs for others to wake up and take ARM servers seriously.
I am a little surprised after the whole meltdown fiasco that people are still buying Intel hardware at what appears to be the same rates as before, despite the fact that the meltdown bug still exists and at current is only fixed with a patch that slows down the hardware.
Although AMD have made some in roads I think it would take a hardware flaw that couldn't be patched and required physical CPU replacement to shift Intel out of the data centre.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
