Traditionally, Intel and its partners have prevented the microserver market from taking off by limiting their Atom (and other low power) platforms to small amounts of RAM, usually 2-4GB.
It sounds like they're finally willing to open this up and allow a decent amount of ram (8GB and beyond) on low-power, tiny motherboards.
The upcoming ARM Cortex-A9 processor will own the microserver market if Intel doesn't let Atom compete. So if this is coming, then it's coming no matter what Intel does.
It sounds like they're finally willing to open this up and allow a decent amount of ram (8GB and beyond) on low-power, tiny motherboards.