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By Noel Randewich LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Qualcomms soon-to-be Chief Executive Officer Steve Mollenkopf said data centers presented an opportunity for the smartphone chipmaker and hinted that the company might develop components for low-power servers. Companies specializing in power-efficient mobile chips are promoting their future use in data centers as an alternative to brawny, power-hungry Intel server processors. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mollenkopf said Qualcomm had no specific microserver products to announce, but he left the door open to a future move into the data center and cloud computing. I think theres going to be a tremendous amount of growth in computing and resources dedicated to supporting the cloud, Mollenkopf said in response to a question.