Intel sources also said Friday that Intel has begun phasing out the Atom brand in discussions with OEMs, replacing it with the “Silvermont” name. That’s the name of the architectural refresh ...

Intel’s Atom X3-C3130 chip, originally code-named SoFIA, will be available as three products: the first, integrated with a 3G radio, has begun shipping, Evans said.

Intel's Atom chips were clearly unable to match the A4 iPad's battery life, but Windows RT, in the form of Microsoft's own Tegra-powered Surface RT hybrid, also failed spectacularly.

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 ...

Netbook computers are cheap and popular, thanks in part to Intel's Atom chip. But the Atom isn't up to the job.

Intel manufactures the Atom using a 45-nanometre (nm) feature size, while VIA still uses 65nm technology. For this reason, the VIA Nano uses more power than Intel's Atom.

Intel has launched its Atom processor, which will be seen in a wide range of computers, from Mobile Internet Devices to low-power notebooks (Netbooks) and desktops (Nettops). Here's a tour of the ...

Based on Intel’s “Silvermont” core architecture, the older Atom chips include a Gen8 Low Power graphics component, support for LPDDR3 and DDR3L memory at 1,600MHz, display resolutions up to ...

The Asus Eee PC 701 launched in 2007, it had an Intel Celeron processor because Intel hadn’t released an Atom chip yet. But the Eee PC was a tiny laptop priced at under $400 at a time when that ...

The Atom processor, and it cousins, have made it possible for PCs to hit prices below $200. But doing so results in a frustrating experience.

We often hear talk about the most powerful servers and supercomputers, but the most power-efficient are just as important. On that latter front, Intel has today announced what it claims is the ...