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Sorry for your lost job. In all honesty though, I don't think ARM in the data centre will ever be anything more than a niche product. Considering Intel is 2 manufacturing processes ahead, the microarchitecture and any potential advantages there won't even really come into play, and Intel's not exactly any slouch either. If 64bit ARM came out a year ago, there might have been a fighting chance, but any chances of a major uptake pretty much died with the release of Avoton. That may very well have been why the next round of funding fell through. Intel's next two generations, Broadwell and Skylake, are both heavily focused on reducing power consumption, and achieving parity with their peformance/watt would be enough of a challenge, let alone creating a significant enough advantage to take away a real amount of market share.

Best of luck on your next venture.