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 ...

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 ...

Late on Friday night, Intel snuck out the news that it’s bailing on the smartphone market. Despite being the world’s best known processor maker, Intel was only a bit player in the mobile space ...

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 ...

And Intel does still plan to launch new low-power Celeron and Pentium chips based on the Apollo Lake platform soon. Update: It turns out the Atom brand is alive and well… but it’s not being ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, Intel released information on its next-generation Atom silicon and the next version of its Linux operating system for Netbooks. Noury Al-Khaledy, general manager of Nettop and Netbook ...

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 ...

Intel renewed its netbook push Tuesday with the formal announcement of its next-generation Atom platform, codenamed Pine Trail. The details of Pine Trail, including the late 2009 launch date ...

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 ...

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 ...