Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

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 Corp. desperately wants the hit Atom netbook processor inside smartphones, cars — even factory robots. Intel Corp. desperately wants the hit Atom netbook processor inside smartphones, cars — ...

Hackers have bypassed Apple’s desire to remove support for Intel’s Atom processor from Mac OS X 10.6.2, allowing the increasingly popular netbooks to run Cupertino’s latest operating system. The ...

The Intel Atom CPU may be designed to provide decent performance at a low price, while using less power than similar chips. But it turns out the “low price” part of that equation is a bit muddy.

Intel on Monday released a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which the company says will bring improved application and graphics performance to netbooks while retaining long battery life. The Atom N550 ...

The move marks the first time Intel will allow another company to manufacture one of its core processor products. Under the new alliance, Intel and TSMC will combine the circuitry of the ultra ...

Evidence suggests that the shortage of low-cost Atom processors that system makers faced earlier this year is over. The low-cost Atom processor is primarily used in low-cost laptops, called netbooks.

Intel has released a number of versions of its low power Intel Atom processor over least year or so. But so far I haven’t seen one called the Intel Atom Z630. But in a product listing for a new ...