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Intel Details Atom "Silvermont" Architecture

Posted 05/06/2013 at 11:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Silvermont is significantly different from Atom architectures that have preceded it.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Silvermont, the codename for the next generation of Intel's Atom line and the first in a family of yearly refreshes. Oh, and forget any preconceived notions you have about Atom, Silvermont is far different from the architecture found in your first or second generation notebook. It's a brand new design using Intel's 22nm 3D Tri-Gate SoC (System-on-Chip), which Intel claims will deliver "significant increases in performance and energy efficiency."

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Intel Atom-based Android Notebooks to Cost $200

Posted 04/26/2013 at 7:21am | by Paul Lilly

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Android will attack the low cost notebook market.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently said that touchscreen PCs could start selling for as little as $200 sometime in the next few months, though it's tough to imagine a Windows 8-based machine carrying such a low price tag. That's because they probably won't. Instead of Windows 8, most of these affordable PCs will be laptop machines built around Google's open source Android platform.

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Intel Plans to Push Atom Prices Down Further to Compete With Arm

Posted 04/21/2013 at 7:46pm | by Justin Kerr

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Intel refuses to surrender the lower-end of the market.

Years ago AMD was putting pressure on Intel to continue innovating on the high end, but fast forwarded to 2013 and Intel is the last man standing. The new war is in ultra-low powered chips, and the company is years behind. Intel’s response to ARM was the ATOM series of processors, but they were stuck trying to power a heavy and bloated Microsoft OS, while ARM had custom designed operating systems that extended battery life, and created an entirely new market. This year the two companies are destined to meet in the middle, and it will be a pivotal moment in the history of computing. Intel has announced its plans to compete with the current crop of dirt cheap ARM based devices, and to the winner goes the spoils.

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Intel Unveils Dual-Core Clover Trail+ Atom Chip for Mobile

Posted 02/25/2013 at 7:57am | by Paul Lilly

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Clover Trail+ represents Intel's push into smartphone and tablet territory.

Intel waited until the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain to formally introduce a new dual-core Atom System-on-Chip (SoC) platform for smartphones and Android tablets. Previously codenamed Clover Trail+, Intel is targeting both performance and mainstream market segments. According to Intel, it's new chip provides double the compute performance and three times the graphics capabilities compared to its Atom Z2460 platform.

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CES 2013: Intel Keynote Rife with Ultrabook and Smartphone Rhetoric

Posted 01/07/2013 at 2:49pm | by Paul Lilly

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Intel is ramping up its effort to be a major player in the mobile arena.

Intel's presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is heavily focused on mobile this time around, a theme that was evident during Paul Otellini's keynote speech that largely dealt with next generation Ultrabooks, as well as a separate press conference highlighting Atom-powered smartphones and Windows 8 Ultrabooks.

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Atom Powered Windows 8 Tablets Delayed Due to Driver Issue

Posted 12/19/2012 at 10:19am | by Paul Lilly

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The majority of Windows 8 tablets won't start shipping until 2013.

Wondering where all the Windows 8 tablets that were supposed to ship before the end of the year are hiding? It seems they've all been bitten by a driver bug, or at least the ones built around Intel's Atom Z2760 processor. The "Clover Trail" part is an energy efficient CPU that promises all-day battery life, but it's reportedly been challenging trying to code drivers that are stable enough to pass Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing.

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Intel Atom S1200 is Industry's First 6-Watt Processor for Servers

Posted 12/11/2012 at 3:47pm | by Paul Lilly

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Atom: It's not just for netbooks anymore.

Intel's Atom family gained notoriety as the architecture of choice for netbooks and nettops, but the future is so much brighter than that. There's of course the mobile handset and tablet categories, and as of today, you can add servers to Atom's resume. Intel's new Atom-based S1200 product family is the world's first low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers, the Santa Clara chip maker announced today.

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Intel Atom Chips Continue To Improve, But Will Be 32-bit Only Until At Least 2015

Posted 11/25/2012 at 12:29pm | by Justin Kerr

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Intel ATOM AMD and Intel have been locked in a CPU arms race for the better part of a decade, but at least for the short term, Intel has turned its focus towards competing with ARM. Consumers have been flocking en-mass to low power mobile devices, and Atom will be the company’s long term strategy to compete on the low end. 2013 will be the year of Clover Trail, however a leaked Intel roadmap is letting us know what we can look forward to in 2014.

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HP Intros ElitePad 900 Windows 8 Tablet, Touts Unique 'Smart Jackets'

Posted 10/02/2012 at 10:38pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Following the unmitigated disaster that was the TouchPad, Hewlett-Packard has kept a low profile in the tablet market, with the Windows 7-powered Slate 2 tablet PC being the only HP-branded tablet device to have hit the market since then. In August, John Solomon, senior VP of HP's Americas printing and personal systems division, said that the company’s Windows 8 tablet would pack “some unique intellectual property.” We now know what Solomon was talking about back then.

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Bid Farewell to Intel's Atom D2700 Processor

Posted 08/02/2012 at 8:25am | by Paul Lilly

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It's not always easy to say goodbye, but in some cases, well, it just plain feels good. Intel's discontinuation of its Atom D2700 processor is one of those moments. With the third quarter now well underway, Intel killing off its fastest Atom processor, as the D2700 is has been tagged with an End of Life (EOL) label. So, why does it feel good to say goodbye in this case?

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