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Tempest Toast, Apples and Atoms
Blog Intel has apparently straightened out whatever bugs they had on the low power Atom. They will take an industrial temperature (-40 to +85C) rated CPU part (Intel Z530 Atom) and then "marry" it to a bunch of parts that aren't!
[October 11, 2008, 10:03]
Intel sees mature markets embracing low-cost PCs
News The Atom processors will be based on a new architecture targeted at low-power devices, and are claimed by the chipmaker to be its "smallest and lowest-power processor yet". Intel's new Atom will bring the company into head-to-head competition with...
[March 10, 2008, 8:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Called the Atom Project, it will run for thirty years and cost around ten billion quid -- thus ensuring a long life for the old AI joke about it being easier and quicker to do the job with unskilled labour.
[August 29, 2003, 19:05]
Japanese scientists want to build robot child
News The quest, which has been named the Atom Project, will span 30 years, and will require almost $500m (£318m) annually from the government. Researchers proposing the project believe that the Atom Project -- inspired by late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's...
[August 26, 2003, 10:05]
Moblin v2.1 - new polish or just box ticking the building blocks?
Blog Moblin’s strategy for mobile Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) built around the Intel Atom processor has, according to the project’s steering committee, reached the Moblin v2.1 project release which features so-called “broad” feature...
[November 6, 2009, 6:28]
A Year Ago: British-led scientists map human DNA
News The international scientific community has heralded the achievement as significant as splitting the atom and landing on the moon. The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome...
[June 25, 2001, 6:07]
British-led scientists map human DNA
News The international scientific community has heralded the achievement as significant as splitting the atom and landing on the moon. The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome...
[June 26, 2000, 11:48]
Inside Intel's Atom review
Reviews The Atom processor has had a long gestation. The Atom architecture is a two-issue design with a 16-stage pipeline. Enter the Atom And now the Atom, Intel's smallest processor. The Atom processor die. A lot of that comes from the Atom being a 45nm...
[June 3, 2008, 17:34]
Intel's Moblin 2 Atom Linux distro goes alpha
Blog The required specs for Moblin 2 appear to include the Atom or a Core 2 Duo processor - I wonder if the half-Intel-half-nVidia Ion platform will be supported, come the final version. The Moblin Project made the initial version available for testing...
[January 29, 2009, 11:28]
Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom
News Opened Hand will focus on participating in the Moblin Software Platform community, which is developing a Linux software stack for Intel's Atom processors. These projects will become part of the Moblin project.
[August 29, 2008, 14:56]
Animated capers on a desktop near you
News The animated classics form part of a project from entertainment Web site Atom Films and animation company Aardman. Aardman is one of Britain's most successful animation houses and intends to bring the cream of British animation to a worldwide...
[January 13, 2000, 14:47]
A Year Ago: Animated capers on a desktop near you
News The animated classics form part of a project from entertainment Web site Atom Films and animation company Aardman. Aardman is one of Britain's most successful animation houses and intends to bring the cream of British animation to a worldwide...
[January 13, 2001, 6:06]
IBM focuses on microscopic advances
News The two companies have created an electron microscope that can accurately depict structures measuring less than an angstrom -- that is, one ten-billionth of a meter, or less than the width of a hydrogen atom, according to Philip Batson, the...
[August 8, 2002, 7:57]
Windows Live program manager quits 'paralysed' division
News His role was to use syndication technologies such as RSS, RDF and Atom to build a platform capable of delivering services to many millions of Internet users. In a posting on his blog, Kennedy explained that his work on the Windows Live project had...
[August 10, 2006, 13:45]
Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype
News The initial prototype supports RSS/Atom feeds and Twitter. Another key idea of the project is that browser functionality for navigating web content, including tabs, bookmarks and history, can be used to navigate messages.
[August 7, 2008, 16:50]
Adobe takes Flash to smartphones
News The company also plans to announce that Flash will work with Nvidia's Ion, bringing high-definition video to the latest Atom netbooks and desktops. It's come out of the Open Screen Project, where we worked with partners to provide a player from the...
[October 5, 2009, 12:57]
Novell, Intel to push Moblin adoption
News Novell and Intel have signed an agreement to promote the Moblin Linux software stack for Atom processors. Moblin is an open-source software platform that is specifically tailored for use on Intel's Atom processors.
[May 8, 2009, 16:43]
Moblin on the Nettop - Part 2 (Overview)
Blog Comment Intel launched the Moblin.org site in July 2007 and significantly updated the site in April 2008 with the launch of the Intel Atom processor family at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The Moblin 2 OS was specifically designed to run on an...
[June 17, 2009, 8:12]
'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat
News Our preliminary experience using Intel Atom-based systems paired with Sata-based flash drives shows that they can provide over 1,000 queries per Joule, demonstrating that the Fawn architecture has significant potential for many I/O-intensive...
[October 19, 2009, 9:23]
Canonical releases Ubuntu MID Edition
News Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station, for building devices using Intel's Atom processor. This release marks the start of a way for new users to...
[June 25, 2008, 9:20]
