Intel this morning officially announced the next generation of its popular Atom CPUs for Netbooks, the Atom N450, weeks before the upcoming CES trade show. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of ...

But this netbook comes with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 processor. I just fired up CPU-Z to see what the clock speeds are with the newer chip. Here are the results: Power Saving Mode – 1.25GHz ...

Atom, for those of you unfamiliar with this Intel brand, represents Intel's low-cost/low-power CPU cores intended to hit cost and/or power levels otherwise unattainable by the company's mainstream ...

The feature set for the UP board is impressive for a credit card sized board; it’s powered by a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 CPU running at 1.84 GHz.

And so when using the file compression app 7Zip’s built-in benchmarking utility, Notebook Italia found that the 1.5GHz Atom N550 was twice as fast as a 1.66 Intel Atom N450 processor.

Over at Seeking Alpha, contributor Ed McKernan recently speculated that Intel 's Atom CPU line will be "snuffed out over the course of the next 18 months," in favor of the company's "big core ...

Intel has already shown off third-generation Core (Ivy Bridge) parts with an 8W TDP, and there are rumors that Intel will launch some sub-10W Ivy Bridge parts at CES next week.

Intel has already been shipping the new Atom processors and motherboard chipset to hardware manufacturers. Systems built on the new architecture will be available the first week of 2010 from a ...

Word of a 32nm Intel Atom processor has emerged, courtesy of a report by UBS Securities. The roadmap shows a chip platform under the codename Medfield, set to launch in 2010, with onboard graphics ...

The released Intel drivers + DXVA don't cut it. Outside that famous CES demo, I've yet to find a real life confirmation on Google that Atom+US15W can in fact play Blu-Ray fluently.

Intel’s chipsets are already found on high-end Windows 8 desktops, laptops, and tablets, and the company’s Atom processors are on more affordable Windows 8 tablets.

Intel's Bay Trail tablet SoC block diagram. Credit: Intel That change in branding is fitting, since Silvermont is the first major overhaul of the Atom CPU architecture since it was introduced in 2008.