AMD Set to Crack Intel’s Lock on Data Centers

Smaller chip maker is poised to take market share in fast-growing market

For chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, the data-center business has nothing but upside.

Far bigger rival Intel has long accounted for about 99% of server processors sold. That will almost certainly change in the coming year as AMD, armed with a new line of chips, cuts into Intel’s long stranglehold on the business.

This has become a booming...