Medis is also working with Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) on design engineering for the fuel production line.
Come summer Intel will debut a whole line of similarly low-power chips based on the Centrino laptop design to take on Opteron in all server categories.
The next step is getting prototypes into gamers hands -- she says Valve already has a production line for short runs, making a beta possible -- and iterating on design before launch.