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 ...

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 ...

Intel executives have conceded that they still haven’t caught up with Qualcomm in designing processors for smartphones and tablets. But with new “SoFIA” Atom X3 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs ...

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 ...

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 Joule 570x packed with a quad-core Intel Atom T5700 “Broxton-M” processor, and the Joule 550x with a quad-core Atom T5500 chip. According to Intel, these two processors promise up to 50 ...

The Silverthorne processor will be called the "Intel Atom". The Menlow platform will be called "Intel Centrino Atom". The Intel Atom processor will be used in the Intel Centrino Atom platform.

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 ...

Atom chips are the underpowered CPUs inside most netbooks. But one company has found a way to stitch 512 of them together to create a single powerful server. SeaMicro has used 1.6-GHz Intel Atom ...

Formerly codenamed “Stellarton,” the Intel Atom processors E665CT, E645CT, E665C, and E645C are scheduled to be available within 60 days. The E625CT and E625C are on track to be available in ...

These machines, which usually see use in point-of-sale applications and the like, sport a 1.4-GHz Intel Atom processor and a couple of gigs of RAM, and the form factor is just right for tucking ...