Intel this morning officially announced the next generation of its popular Atom CPUs for Netbooks, the Atom N450, weeks before the upcoming CES trade show. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of ...

Intel and hardware partners launched a tiny, low-power single-board computer aimed at developers last year. Called the MinnowBoard, the system featured an Intel Atom E640 processor and a $199 price ...

Intel’s underpowered Atom CPU has finally found some respect—on Mars. The lowly chip had a tough time on Earth, winning the faintest of praise for its pedestrian performance. But its energy-sipping ...

Bottom line: Intel's N95 is an upcoming budget friendly processor that is considered to be the successor to Atom processors. The chip punches above its weight class in Geekbench 5 and performs ...

With netbooks’ surprise success, Intel Corp.’s Atom processor has become an unexpected money-maker during a down period, bringing in a cool US$719 million since its debut about a year ago. But look ...

People have been overclocking the Intel Atom processor used in netbooks ever since it was first released last summer, with some people reporting clock speeds of higher than 2GHz. But Asus has always ...

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-based ...

The DC1 fanless, intelligent display computer, or panel PC, uses an Atom processor at up to 1.6 GHz. The system features 1 Gbyt-e of RAM and a 4-Gbyte USB-controlled flash disk, uses only 20 W, and ...

Intel desperately wants its Atom netbook processor inside almost every computing device on the market -- smartphones, automobiles, robots, regular desktops and laptops and of course, netbooks. But ...