Netbook computers are cheap and popular, thanks in part to Intel's Atom chip. But the Atom isn't up to the job. Netbook computers are cheap and popular, ...

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 could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets. As it cuts its Atom product line, the company is flushing billions it spent trying to expand in those markets.

Atom chips are used in a variety of Windows tablets. Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, Atom CPUs deliver more performance per watt than Intel desktop CPUs and produce much less heat.

To that end, Intel doesn’t intend to kill off Atom entirely, and still plans to offer a chip for tablets later this year, codenamed Apollo Lake. Even Moore’s Law is hitting a wall ...

Intel announced the Atom C3000 line, codenamed Denverton, in 2017 and since then added four new processors to the range. The models are Atom C3338R, C3436L, C3558R and C3758R.

And now the Atom, Intel's smallest processor. At under 25 square millimetres, it's a tenth the area of a Pentium 4 chip while having 47 million transistors compared to the P4's 42 million.

The Atom version has an MSRP of $159 with an OS, but we don't know how much the OS-free version will cost. The Core m3 version will cost about $400 with Windows and "closer to $300" with no OS.

The Atom x5 and x7 SoCs don’t come with integrated data solutions, but will play nicely with Intel’s LTE MM276x modem, which supports Cat-6 speeds and carrier aggregation.

The next is the Atom x3-C3230RK, co-designed by Intel and Rockchip. This is still a 3G-only chip, but it's a quad-core part with better graphics support that is aimed at devices in the $75-$149 range.

Intel recently reported 12,000 job losses and the cancellation of Broxton, after struggling to make an impact on the mobile market. Here's a rundown of what Intel is up to and has planned for mobile.

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