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 has picked "Atom" as the new brand name for its latest microprocessor, the world's largest semiconductor company said. The Intel Atom processor is the name for the new family of low-power ...

Intel’s upcoming Atom tablet chip code-named Bay Trail will be repurposed for use in the company’s Celeron and Pentium chips for entry-level laptops, desktops, and all-in-ones, Intel said on Friday.

The initial concept behind Intel's new Atom low-power chips for mobile devices was not received enthusiastically by senior staff, says Intel's CTO Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power ...

Today, Intel has unveiled its next-generation Atom CPU core. Called Silvermont, this 22nm CPU will power the Merrifield (smartphone) and Bay Trail (tablet) SoCs. With the PC market waning, and ...

For the past few months, details on the Goldmont architecture (that's the Atom microarchitecture refresh that replaced Silvermont this year) have been extraordinarily scarce and hard to come by. After ...