Intel’s Radek Walcyzk, head of PR for the chipmaker’s server division, called Wired today with Intel’s official response to the ARM-based microserver news form Tuesday. In a nutshell, Intel would like the public to know that the microserver phenomenon is indeed real, and that Intel will own it with Xeon, and to a lesser extent with Atom.

Now, you’re probably thinking, isn’t Xeon the exact opposite of the kind of extreme low-power computing envisioned by HP with Project Moonshot? Surely this is just crazy talk from Intel? Maybe, but Walcyzk raised some valid points that are worth airing.

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