Hot Chips An opportunity to define the future of server processing comes along once every decade or so, and Applied Micro Circuit, a company known for its networking chips and PowerPC-based embedded controllers, wants to move up into the big leagues to take on Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, and the handful of remaining etchers of RISC processors for the data center. Applied Micro may be an upstart in the server chip racket and it may be facing long odds, but Paramesh Gopi, the company's president and CEO, and Gaurav Singh, its vice president of engineering for ARM and PowerPC processors...