AMD's press invitation says Monday's event is to discuss its "ambidextrous strategy," a plan it outlined to use other companies' technologies in its products.

SeaMicro made its name by developing technologies that allow it to build highly dense, power-efficient servers for Internet-scale workloads. The technologies include a network fabric that can link thousands of servers at low latency, and a custom chip that replaces most of the components on a standard server board.

SeaMicro's first products were based on Intel's Atom and Xeon processors, and SeaMicro was a close partner of Intel before being bought by AMD for US$334 million. Last month it said it a server based on an AMD Opteron processor.

But SeaMicro's roots are in low-power designs, so it would make sense for AMD to offer a server based on an ARM chip. Such chips are used in smartphones and tablets because of their low power characteristics.

AMD with ARM earlier this year to use its TrustZone security technology in AMD processors, but it hasn't announced any plans yet to build an ARM-based CPU. That could be about to change, however.