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Acer Aspire One D270 arriving with Intel Cedar Trail

Rue Liu, Dec 30th 2011 Discuss [3]

The Acer Aspire One D270 netbook sports Intel's latest Cedar Trail based Atom processor and has already surfaced in the online product listings of some European retailers. The netbook will be one of the first to run on the Cedar Trail chip, of which also include a lineup of netbooks from ASUS and Samsung. Read The Full Story

Android partners with Intel for new Medfield-based tablets, smartphones

Rue Liu, Sep 13th 2011 Discuss [1]

Google and Intel announced a new partnership today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that will make future Android releases optimized for Intel chips in addition to the current de facto ARM-based chips. Android smartphone and tablet prototypes were even shown off during the event, running on Intel Atom chips. Read The Full Story

AMD “Desna” Chips For Tablets? Roadmap Leaked

Rue Liu, May 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Early last month we talked about AMD possibly heading into the tablet market, with announcements brewing up as Computex 2011 approaches. Well, it looks to be the case now that a massive multi-page company roadmap for AMD has been leaked. Currently, the company has its C-30 and C-50 chips aimed at the notebooks market that includes an iterated AMD Radeon graphics core capable of handling 3D graphics acceleration and 1080p video playback. Read The Full Story

Intel’s New Atom Chip Architecture Coming

Samia Perkins, May 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

Intel is currently working on a new Atom chip architecture, codenamed "Silvermont". This new architecture goes beyond the Ivy Bridge with 22nm 3D Tri-Gate transistors. The new Google Chromebooks use Atom processors, but the Silvermont architecture speeds things ahead by two generations. Continue past the cut for more details. Read The Full Story

The Atom Z670, Intel’s Answer To Tegra 2

Kevin Fubar, Apr 11th 2011 Discuss [7]

This is big, Intel finally dropped a system on a chip on us. Today, they announced the official release of their new Atom Z670 CPU codenamed "Oak Trail." It's a 45nm chip with graphics and memory control on the same die. That lines up this chip to be a direct competitor to the ARM based chips we're seeing in virtually every other tablet. Intel has seemed to be a bit behind the game in the mobile market, but the "Oak Trail" might be their ticket to the show. Read The Full Story

Intel Executive Anand Chandrasekher Resigns

Kevin Fubar, Mar 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group (UMG), was the driving force behind the Atom and Centrino Atom low power CPU's. He will be replaced by VP's Mike Bell and Dave Whalen, who will be co-leading the group in Chandrasekher's absence. Intel's site says about the UMG,"This group is responsible for low power Intel® Architecture products, ultra-mobile PC's, mobile internet devices, smart mobile and hand-held market segments." Intel's announcement noted that Chandrasekher would be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities after a long run at the company. He's been with Intel since 1988. Read The Full Story

Intel Acquires Silicon Hive In Push For Mobile Processing Chips

Rue Liu, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel acquired Silicon Hive today in an effort to push itself further into the mobile device market. Silicon Hive is a company specializing in making chipsets for smartphones, media hubs and other small devices. Intel has been lagging behind in mobile processing, and although its Intel Atom is gearing up for tablet devices, their processor is still too big, demands too much power, and is more expensive than those of competing chip makers such as ARM and NVIDIA. Read The Full Story

NAO: A Robot with a Heart Powered by Intel

Samia Perkins, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel and Aldebaran have collaborated to created NAO, a robot with a heart powered by Intel Atom. He's teeny, the size of a large newborn baby: only 53cm in height, and weighs 4kg (Ok, about 21 inches and 9lbs). Nao can be customized with a wide range of accessories, and can be used for many different purposes. He can even dance flamenco. See the video after the break. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu To Launch Windows 7 Tablet With Intel Oak Trail At CeBIT

Rue Liu, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

We mentioned before here and here that tablets are increasingly being adopted at the enterprise level. Originally a luxury item for media consumption and game play on the go, tablets are rapidly heading to the work place. Fujitsu has this in mind and will be targeting enterprise users when they officially unveil their new Windows 7 tablet---the Stylistic Q550---at CeBIT. Read The Full Story

DreamBook ePad F10: New Intel Windows Tablet

Rue Liu, Feb 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

There are more and more tablet options on the market these days. Pioneer Computers in Australia is offering up another alternative in its new DreamBook ePad F10. This sleek tablet runs on the Intel Atom processor and is ready for either Microsoft Windows 7 or Android. Read The Full Story

Intel Netbook and Tablet Group Formed Behind Closed Doors

Evan Selleck, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sometimes companies still like to do things under the radar. No press release, and no public announcement to be heard. Intel, this time around, is the company in question, and it looks like the chip maker is all set to make sure that in the near future, they've got some buffer zones built against the competition within the netbook and tablet market. Read The Full Story

Linutop 3 fanless Atom-powered PC surfaces

Shane McGlaun, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

If you like some open source sauce to go with your computing experience you may be familiar with the Linutop line of computers. The Linutop 2 ran and AMD Geode processor and is a crazy tiny little machine. The company has announced the latest version of the Linutop PC dubbed the Linutop 3. This time around the machine gets a bit larger, but gets Intel Atom power. Read The Full Story