A look at the most exciting gadgets of CES 2009
News Inside, the device is a fairly standard Eee PC, using a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and 16GB or 32GB of solid-state storage. Introduced at CES, the Vaio P has many of the qualities of a netbook — the low-powered Atom processor, small screen, light...
[January 9, 2009, 16:30]
IDF photos: MIDs and the world's smallest mobo review
Reviews Together, the Atom/SCH combination form the Centrino Atom (formerly Menlow) platform for Mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs). The Atom, Intel's tiniest and lowest-power processor in current production, is the smaller of the...
[April 2, 2008, 11:20]
Intel adds two new Atoms for netbooks
News The Atom processor powers many of the netbook PCs that have proven popular in recent years, such as Asus's Eee. Moorestown features a system-on-a-chip that has an Atom processor core manufactured using Intel's 45nm process.
[April 8, 2009, 16:56]
Intel outsources Atom manufacturing to TSMC
News Intel has announced it is to outsource the manufacturing of its Atom processor to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that forms the basis of the collaboration, Intel will port its Atom...
[March 2, 2009, 17:01]
Gartner: ARM-based devices gaining momentum
News The trend toward low-cost notebooks was sparked by the introduction of netbooks, or Intel Atom-based mini-notebooks, he said. Speaking on Thursday at the research firm's 15th Annual Semiconductor Roadshow in Singapore, Christian Heidarson...
[October 1, 2009, 13:12]
Intel apologises to Apple, ARM for iPhone attack
News Intel senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher yesterday issued what he said was a correction of the executives' words, saying that Intel's Atom processor had not yet matched the battery-life characteristics of the rival ARM processor for devices...
[October 24, 2008, 8:30]
Intel chip launch targets robots, cars and TV
News The company says it has 15 further SoC projects in the pipeline, many of which will centre on the recently unveiled, very low-power Atom core. That will include its own graphics processor unit and be part of Moorestown, the first of Intel's Ultra...
[July 24, 2008, 11:26]
Geekender Gallery: IDF 2009
News This Umid Atom-powered ultra-mini-notebook/mobile internet device/micro-netbook (choose one) is the closest we've seen to our favourite portable form factor, the Psion Series 5. It can only support a single processor - but with eight cores coming...
[September 25, 2009, 17:04]
That's how they did it: VAIO X Series uses Sandisk
Blog You pay for the portability; prices are north of £1,200, which is high for an Atom processor. That was a prototype sample, so I have yet to find out if the shipping model is quite that unfeasibly light in my hands, and I'll need to take it on the...
[November 3, 2009, 12:33]
Samsung preps 'antibacterial' netbook
News Many of the netbook's specifications are typical to the market, such as its use of Intel's Atom processor and Windows XP, and its integrated webcam. Several features are unusual, though, such as its "ultra-durable Protect-o-Edge casing" and the...
[September 19, 2008, 16:06]
How Microsoft can make Windows 7 a success
News The Windows development team has to find a way to streamline Windows 7 so that it's faster and more stable than both XP and Vista, whether it's running on netbooks and nettops with the Atom processor and only 1GB of RAM, or tomorrow's eight-core...
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
Intel launches next-generation Classmate PC
News A version with the Atom will be delivered in a time-to-market fashion," she said, referring to Intel's recently launched ultra-low-power x86 platform. The processor, as before, is a 900MHz Celeron-M. Intel has launched its second-generation...
[April 3, 2008, 13:05]
