Tag archive: Atom

Chipmaking giant Intel posted financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2011, showing double-digit growth across all its business segments and revenue of some $13 billion dollars. The company pulled in some $3.9 billion in operating profit, and while that's a slight increase over the same quarter a year ago, the company also saw its gross margins contract by 6.6 percent. Intel's revenue success was largely based on broad… Read More

Computer maker Acer has introduced its new—if somewhat counter intuitively-named&mdsah;Aspire One Happy 2 netbooks. The new systems feature 10.1-inch display and Intel Atom N570 processors, along with battery lives of up to eight hours. The systems also feature a selection of four bright new colorful cases—dubbed Banana Cream, Blueberry Shake, Papaya Milk, Strawberry Yogurt—that are less than one inch thick. “We've made our… Read More

At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, chipmaking giant Intel took the wraps off its plans for a new class of consumer notebook computer dubbed the Ultrabook (PDF). Ultrabooks will be distinct from mainstream notebook primarily by their design: they'll be less than 20mm (0.8 inches) thick, feature USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectivity, and sport some “tablet-like” features. But, perhaps most importantly, Intel envisions… Read More

Intel has revelead it will be showcasing more than 10 tablets later this month at Taiwan's Computex trande show—and those tablets will, of course, be built around the company's new Oak Trail processors specially designed for mobile devices. And the company says these tablets from its partners are only the beginning: the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) three dozen or more Intel-powered tablets are to be… Read More

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, chipmaking giant Intel has re-affirmed its commitment to the open source MeeGo platform—despite Nokia's high-profile defection to focus on Windows Phone 7 and killing off the first MeeGo device before it even launched. Although the loss of Nokia from the MeeGo platform is particularly jarring—MeeGo development is centered on Nokia's Qt development environment—Intel notes that partners like… Read More

Fresh off introducing its new AMD Fusion series of APUs at CES, chipmaker AMD has announced its AMD Embedded G-series processors, which bring Fusion technology to embedded systems. The upshot is that discrete systems—like those used in set-top boxes, home automation, in-vehicle entertainment systems, some point-of-sales systems, automation, security, and a bunch more—will be able to tap into the battery-sipping processing power of… Read More

With all the hype about portable tablets, it can be easy to forget the device that, a couple years ago, was the great white hope of the computing industry—the netbook. But Hewlett-Packard hasn't forgotten, announcing a new HP Mini 1103 netbook aimed at business travelers and folks who need a full WIndows environment on the go. The Mini 1103 features a 10.1-inch 1,024 by 600-pixel display, and Intel Atom N455 or N475 processor,… Read More

Audio gear maker Harman has been a long-time leader in in-vehicle audio systems, but the company apparently has no intention of letting the mobile entertainment and Internet world pass it by: at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco, Harmon has announced it has developed an Atom-based In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) computing module. Harman says the system has been developer in close collaboration with Intel, and marks the first time an… Read More

Because there can never be too many application stores, Intel has joined the online app store party with its AppUp center. Previously in beta, the online store for consumers will offer a number of free and paid social networking, gaming, and productivity applications for netbooks. Applications from Accuweather, Barnes & Noble, Funkitron, Gibson Guitars, iWin, Kaplan, Konami, and Lifetime are currently available from AppUp. Only netbooks with… Read More

Chipmaking giant Intel has kicked off its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco with demonstrations of its “Sandy Bridge” processors, expected to debut in early 2011 and become the next processor family driving mainstream notebook and desktop PCs. Unlike the current Core series, the 32nm Sandy Bridge chips will feature integrated graphics controllers that will share cache and memory with the processors own core, substantially… Read More

Chipmaking giant Intel has announced that netbook computers based on Intel's dual-core N550 processor are going on sale today at retailers, promising performance boosts for games, video, and entertainment applications—as well as those daring souls who might be running multithreaded productivity applications on a netbook. Intel claims the N550s offer improved application performance—Intel specifically calls out Hulu and… Read More

Acer has made good money on netbooks, and it's not done pumping up the business, rolling out four new Aspire One netbooks today, with a focus on portability, battery life, connectivity, entertainment…and affordability. Two of the new systems are built around Intel Atom processors, while the other two are built on AMD processors and boast high-definition graphics capability. First up, the Acer Aspire One AOD260 and AO533 netbooks… Read More

Never one to let a marketing opportunity for its processors slip by, chipmaker Intel has announced it has released the first versions of its low-powered Atom processor aimed at the storage markets for home and small business use. The initial line consists of two chips—the Atom D410 single-core CPU and the Atom D510 dual-core CPU, paired with Intel's 82801IR I/O controller—and NAs device makers like LaCie, LG, QNAP, Thecus,… Read More

Computer maker Gateway is the latest company to announce new netbooks built around Intel's latest “Pine Trail” Atom processor—and, like offerings from other companies, the new netbooks support Windows 7 and offer substantially improved battery life compared to previous generations. Gateway says the new LT21-series can get up to 10 hours of use off a 6-cell Li-Ion Extended 5600mAh battery…although they'll… Read More

Intel and Nvidia aren't the best of friends lately, with the companies busily suing each other over breach of contract and chipset licensing issues: Intel claims existing agreements don't give Nvidia permission to develop graphics solutions for chips like Intel's new generation of Atom processors that integrate their own graphics systems. Nvidia announced earlier this year that it was suspending development on chipsets for… Read More