The lower price comes from using a new Intel chip called the Atom. That chip turns out to be the cause of most of the netbook's problems. Intel, along with rival amd, has been under enormous ...

The company is immediately canceling Atom chips, code-named Sofia and Broxton, for mobile devices, an Intel spokeswoman confirmed. These are the first products on the chopping block as part of ...

Any system based on one of Intel's Atom processors is going to be a little slow, but flaky wireless, inconsistent performance, and a clunky setup process all made it less appealing than it could ...

Rumors of Intel Atom's death have been greatly exaggerated. And Intel has only itself to blame for that. Now it seems that the company is clarifying, or further muddling, its plans for its low ...

Intel’s Atom was mostly known as a low-end chip for mobile devices that underperformed. That may not be the case anymore. The latest Atom C3000 chips announced on Tuesday have up to 16 cores and ...

Intel’s mobile SoC road map stated that the company’s mainstream and high-end Atom x5 and x7 processors would be launching sometime in the second quarter of 2016, to accompany the first batch ...

BARCELONA, Spain—At Mobile World Congress 2015, Intel has unveiled its latest in a very long line of attempts at securing a beachhead in the mobile market: the Atom x3, Atom x5, and Atom x7 SoCs.

Until recently the C7 processor defined performance at lower power consumption, but not to be outdone, Intel released at Computex 2008 its introduction to take on VIA; the Atom series processor.

A family of low-voltage x86 CPUs from Intel that was created for portable devices. Along with the introduction of the Atom in 2008, Intel coined the term "netbook" for small, entry-level Atom ...

If it can't, then the cost structure inverts. This is the essential nature of the "Atom Everywhere" plan. Intel needs -- has always needed -- widespread uptake of its Atom processors to justify ...

Intel is previewing multiple new products. The Atom Briarwood core (32nm) is already on the market -- HP's Project Moonshot is based on this processor -- but Avoton and Rangely are new high ...

Here’s how it works. Twice the speed of the previous generation - that's the familiar cry from Intel regarding its latest Atom processor, codenamed Bay Trail. It's the big thing coming out of ...