About half a year ago, Intel introduced its Atom CPU series, and performance in some tasks was quite a disappointment for us. Intel made a step in the right direction introducing its first dual-core ...

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It was only a matter of time before Acer let out the pricing / availability details on its dual-core Atom netbook, and as we could have predicted, the Taiwanese company's smacked an extremely enticing ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The Intel Atom N550 processor is the first dual core Atom chip built specifically for netbooks. Up until now all dual core Atom processors have been designed for low power desktops. While there aren’t ...

At its annual developer forum, microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) talked about its next-generation Atom processor core, code-named Goldmont. Although the Atom family had primarily been ...

Atom is a critical part of Intel's broader strategy to get its chips into as many devices as possible. However, I disagree that Intel plans to "snuff out" the Atom processor line -- and that Intel ...

Intel on Tuesday showed off a netbook with a dual-core Atom processor as it talked up efforts to crank up the performance of the low-cost laptops. The dual-core netbook shown on stage at the company’s ...

It looks like we'll be seing Intel's new dual-core Atom 330 on the market sooner rather than later. The chip will launch in September accompanied by a refreshed D945GCLF2 motherboard, and is targeted ...

Intel has made it clear that its fourth-generation Core or “Haswell” processors will power future PCs. But at the low end of the notebook market, the company’s branding strategy will be far ...

The chip Intel wants to talk about this week is Sandy Bridge, but the keynote demo of Intel's WiDi wireless display running on an Atom tablet (showing a static image rather than video, but streaming ...

Intel's just introduced a brand new quad-core Atom-based processor specifically meant for tablets, codenamed "Bay Trail." As you can see in the slide above, it's a 22nm chip that promises double the ...