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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intel’s latest Atom processors for tablets, notebooks, and other low power devices are here. The Microsoft Surface 3 is one of the first products to ship with an Intel Atom x7 chip based on ...

That depends on your tolerance for frustration. These notebooks can win at pricing limbo only because they use low-cost Intel Atom processors, which are far less powerful then the mainstream Core ...

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 ...