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AIS Intros Cedar Trail Embedded Panel PC

Intel's Cedar Trail series of CPUs has spread across much of the worldwide industry, not just the consumer market, as AIS is all too eager to show. American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) has revealed the AIS industrial embedded touch panel PCs series of Cedar Trail systems. They are powered by the Intel Atom...

13 February 2012
05:27 GMT

First Intel Micro-Server Atom Chip Detailed

Looks like Intel is not lagging in its development of micro-server central processing units, having just started sample shipments of its first Atom-based system-on-chip. Anyone wondering what exactly Intel was working on besides the recently benchmarked Core i7 3770K high-end Ivy Bridge CPU (and its family) now hav...

2 February 2012
08:49 GMT

Jetway Reveals Two Mini-ITX Motherboards Bearing Atom CPUs

It looks like mini-ITX motherboards are still getting built, with Jetway being, this time, the company eager to reveal its latest creations powered by the Cedar Trail CPU platform. If anyone thought the Atom series of CPUs (central processing units) from Intel was in dire straits, they may be somewhat wrong. After...

31 January 2012
08:33 GMT

HP Readies Mini 1104 Netbook, Atom Not Dead Quite Yet

Even though Atom-powered netbooks aren't expected to hold onto their market share much longer, HP still thinks there are enough prospective customers out there to warrant a new release. It wasn't long ago that we learned about how some parties believed that Intel's Atom line of netbook chips, and net...

24 January 2012
16:31 GMT

Intel Atom CPUs Are Doomed and So Are Netbooks

Atom central processing units have been selling rather slowly over the past few months, and with Intel not mentioning the brand much lately, it is likely that they do not have long to live. Intel recently published its financial results for Q4 2011 and the whole year, but even with overall record sales it wasn�...

21 January 2012
04:00 GMT

CES Also Readies Industrial Mini-ITX Boards for Cedar Trail

We have already written about Intel's new mini-ITX motherboards that can serve consumers, so that only leaves three more to take note of. As revealed by Intel's website, the D2700DC and DN2800MT aren't the only small platforms that the chip giant developed for the Cedar Trail CPU series. The other ...

16 January 2012
13:31 GMT

Download the Intel GMA 3600 Series Driver for Windows 7 32-bit

Good news for the owners of Intel Atom CPU-based motherboards: a new display driver is out, backed with a new revision for the audio driver, as well. If you have a motherboard equipped with an Intel Atom D2500, D2700, N2100, N2600, or N2800 processor, and are also running Windows 7 32-bit, then this is the right driv...

16 January 2012
10:59 GMT

Intel Intros Cedar Trail Mini-ITX Motherboards for Consumers

Intel's Cedar Trail Atom processing units now have some new motherboards to settle in, all of them featuring the mini-ITX form factors. The Santa Clara, California-based CPU giant released several mini-ITX motherboards with support for the latest Atom CPUs. They are five in number, but only two of them really...

16 January 2012
03:39 GMT

Intel Classmate PCs Get Better with New Atoms

Since Intel now has a new line of Atom central processing units, it makes sense that it would upgrade all product lines that rely on such chips. The latest batch of notebooks to be updated is a certain educational line aptly named Classmate PC. Essentially, it is composed of clamshell and convertible platforms, n...

11 January 2012
09:57 GMT

Intel Atom CPU Going Quad-Core in 2013

As ARM is continuing its push on the computer market, Intel has begun to step up its own game, apparently going as far as increasing the core number on its low-end processors. Even though 2012 has only just begun, there are already rumors about what may or may not happen in 2013. Intel is the subject of the latest...

5 January 2012
02:40 GMT

ASRock Also Releases Three Mini-ITX Atom Motherboards

Looks like ASRock is really up to its neck in its confusing act today, as its new motherboards, or some of them, are very peculiar. In this case, ASRock has released the AD2500B-ITX, the AD2700B-ITX and the AD2700-ITX. Indeed, those last two are almost identical in name, even though their specifications are very ...

22 December 2011
15:41 GMT

Intel Shows Off Android Prototype with Medfield Chip

Although Intel’s business is still focused on building chips for personal computers and netbooks, the company is trying with no luck to enter the smartphone market with one of its hardware products or some revolutionary software. Even though the company has been working for years on a low power consumption mob...

21 December 2011
09:47 GMT

Intel Will Have a Hard Time with Medfield in 2012

Looks like Intel's past misses are coming back to haunt the Santa Clara, California-based company as it is preparing to try its hand (again) at the smartphone and tablet markets.By now, people should be well aware of how Intel is really serious about entering the mobile market.That means the market of handsets,...

17 December 2011
07:13 GMT

'Borderville' Atom 'Centerton' Chip Is Intel's Answer to ARM Servers

ARM wants, and just might, get a foothold in the server market starting next year, as an omen of things to come, but Intel really doesn't seem amenable to the idea. In fact, seeing that ARM PCs are an interesting idea to 40% of PC makers, and with ARM's server goal public knowledge, Intel acted. In come...

7 December 2011
09:32 GMT

Intel Atom Cedar Trail-M Could Still Arrive in December 2011

We have talked quite a lot about Intel’s delay of its mobile Atom Cedar Trail platform in the last couple of weeks, but now a new report came our way to suggest that the chip maker may still launch these chips by the end of 2011.This latest development in the Cedar Trail-M saga was reported by the DigiTimes pub...

1 December 2011
06:11 GMT

Atom N2100 Cedar Trail-M CPU Outside of Intel's Roadmap

Whatever plans Intel had made for the Atom series of central processing units, they didn't include a certain Atom N2x00 chip, but the web is nothing if not observant. While this is not the first time Intel creates a processor without planning for it too far in advance, the chip some think will be called Atom ...

26 November 2011
04:38 GMT

Intel Reportedly Delays Its Atom Cedar Trail Mobile CPUs

Intel seems to face a lot of troubles with the launch of its mobile Atom processors based on the new Cedar Trail architecture and these issues have apparently forced the chip maker to postpone the launch of these CPUs to the end of December. This means that its partners won't be able to release netbooks built a...

24 November 2011
02:34 GMT

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18 November 2011
13:01 GMT

Intel Plans 22nm 8-Core Atom CPU for 2013 Launch Says Report

Even though some of you may be quick to write off Intel's low-power Atom processors, the chip maker apparently still has plans for this architecture as recent reports suggest 2013 will mark the introduction of a new eight-core Atom processor.According to information received by Semi Accurate, the chip will be ca...

2 November 2011
20:31 GMT

Giada Mini PC In the Works

The new nettop that Chinese company JEHE is, apparently, preparing goes by the name of Giada F100 but, alas, has not been given a price and availability date. This didn't stop the company from at least setting up a product page and disclosing every relevant detail about the mini PC though. The computer has a...

28 October 2011
05:36 GMT

Intel Admits It Didn't Do Well on Smart TV Market, Backs Out

Intel may be trying to expand to as many chip markets as possible, but Smart TVs have turned out to be a failed venture, the company having announced that it would stop making Smart TV chips. Given the quasi PC-like nature of Smart TVs, it was no shock to learn that Intel wanted to get its processors inside them....

13 October 2011
08:22 GMT

Intel Atom Cedarview Mobile CPUs Use Less than 2W of Power

While we are still waiting for the official debut of the first mobile Atom processors based on the Cedarview architecture, a German publication has managed to uncover a series of new details about these chips, including the power consumption of the CPUs.These new Intel chips will go by the name of Atom N2600 and Atom...

4 October 2011
10:46 GMT

Intel Atom N2X00 CPUs Exposed Prematurely

The Atom N Series of central processing units is moving to a new generation, the Atom N2X00 line to be exact, even though the process has yet to reach the official stage. Market watchers being who they are, Intel has once again failed to reach the official launch date of its upcoming chips without leaking informa...

3 October 2011
03:00 GMT

Intel Atom Cedarview CPUs Won't Support DirectX 10 After All

DirectX 10.1 support was one the major features Intel promised to deliver with the introduction of its new Cedarview Atom architecture, but recent reports suggest the chip maker wasn't able to keep up to its word as the Cedar Trail platform is limited at offering just DX 9 graphics.Intel launched the Atom Cedarv...

30 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel Launches Cedar Trail Atom D2500 and D2700 CPUs

Intel did say it wasn't going to drop the Atom brand and, sure enough, a couple of D-Series Atoms based on a more advanced manufacturing process have now made their debut. The Atom brand is one that Intel has used for quite some time, with the netbook and nettop market being the main one responsible for all ...

27 September 2011
05:05 GMT

Intel Not Dropping Atom Brand, Despite Rumors

Rumors may have said that Intel had decided to give up on the Atom brand, but it looks like said reports were wrong, according to more recent words on the company's part, albeit indirect ones. The Atom brand is one that Intel utilizes for a fairly broad range of central processing units, especially those for l...

23 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel to Drop the Atom Name Due to Poor Brand Image – Report

Starting with the launch of the Cedar Trail platform, Intel plans to stop using the Atom name for its low-power processor series due to poor brand image, says a report citing industry sources that recently hit the Web.The rebrand is expected to happen sometime next year, since Cedar Trail won't reach retail avai...

23 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Easy to Use Periodic Table Guidebook

The study of chemical elements can be a pleasant activity, especially when the teacher is fun to work with. Chemistry 101 is the software that can guide you through the basics and explain everything along the way. Whether it is a school task or a simple curiosity, getting acquainted with the periodic table of the ...

23 September 2011
15:41 GMT

Intel Atom E6xx Supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread

The Atom line of CPUs from Intel is poised to welcome a new member early next year, although this won't exactly be its major step on the smartphone front, despite its repeated statements that it was working on something of the sort. Intel may not take pains towards leaking information on its products ahead o...

13 September 2011
02:42 GMT

Cedar Trail Intel Atom Chips Benchmarked at Last

That Intel is working on a new generation of Atom chips is no mystery, but there hasn't been a clear idea of what users can expect from the CPUs, until now that is. Intel is getting closer to the time when it updates its product portfolio, even if it might not do it all at once. Among other things, there ...

27 August 2011
04:34 GMT

DirectX Issues Cause Intel CPU Delay

A new report has emerged about the upcoming series of Atom CPUs from Intel, one that sheds some light on just why the recent rumors about them being delayed came to be.There have been several leaks over the past months concerning the next generation of Intel Atom chips known as Cedar Trail-M.Some of them even placed...

20 August 2011
04:25 GMT

Intel Cedar Trail-M Netbook Platform Delayed

The past days saw news about Intel's CPU lineup, most of which was encouraging, but there seem to be some less than fortuitous changes of plans on the horizon, particularly in regards to the upcoming netbook platform. Recently, Intel has either given updates or was the subject of reports concerning its existin...

18 August 2011
05:53 GMT

Intel's Atom Chips Will Become More Powerful than AMD Phenom II CPUs

Intel recently held a meeting with select members of the UK press to discuss the company's plans regarding processor design, and one of the most interesting topics that were debated included the performance expectations of the upcoming Atom chips, which should become faster than the current AMD Phenom II CPUs in...

27 July 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel's 32nm Cedar Trail Atom Platform Still Lacks USB 3.0

One would think that processor platforms would make haste in integrating the newest iteration of the USB standard, but it looks like Intel's Cedar Trail won't get it, nor will it receive the SATA III interface.As end-users know, the Super Speed USB 3.0 standard has already become a real phenomenon on the i...

14 July 2011
11:16 GMT

ASUS Meego Netbook with Atom N435 Comes in July

Netbooks may no longer be in the minds of the people as much as they were last year, but they are hardly going to disappear, especially now that the likes of ASUS are branching out to more operating systems. The tablet market has definitely put a dent in the plans that makers of mobile computers had envisioned fo...

27 June 2011
05:45 GMT

Intel Prepares Seven Mini-ITX Atom Cedar Trail Motherboards

In September of this year, Intel will launch a new series of Atom processors based on the Cedar Trail architecture and, according to the latest reports to hit the Web, these will be accompanied by no less than seven mini-ITX motherboards that integrated these CPUs.All the motherboards that will be launched by Intel a...

24 June 2011
08:41 GMT

Intel Cedar Trail Netbooks Will Get Wireless Display Support

Expected to arrive in the third quarter of this year, Intel's Cedar Trail-M platform for netbook devices will feature support for the Wireless Display technology, according to a leaked Intel slide that just recently hit the Web.This technology was also showcased during the Computex 2011 fair, so the news is pret...

23 June 2011
16:01 GMT

Happy2 Acer Aspire Netbooks Ripple Into View

It appears that Acer really is bringing out all the big guns in its quest to have netbooks at least stay at current sales levels, such as extra aesthetic elements, in addition to better performance and affordability.By now, consumers will have already learned of the fact that the netbook market hasn't been doin...

3 June 2011
07:38 GMT

Asus Lamborghini VX6S 12-Inch Laptop Packs AMD Radeon GPU

Asus had on display at Computex a new VX6 12-inch gaming laptop that includes many of the features of its predecessor, but it now comes with an upgraded graphics unit that is based on an AMD Radeon core.On a first look, the notebook seems identical with the previous Lamborghini VX6 notebook, but Asus has refined the ...

3 June 2011
03:28 GMT

Intel Cedar Trail D2700 CPU Spotted in Asus mITX Motherboard

Even though Intel hasn't made its Cedar Trail processors official just yet, Asus has already showcased a mini-ITX mainboard that is built around the upcoming Atom D2700 CPU at this year's Computex 2011 fair. The board is called the DM27NM10 IPC-I and it features an entirely passive design, which relies o...

2 June 2011
09:27 GMT

Intel Accelerates Atom CPU Roadmap

With all that has been happening on the IT market, and the speed at which slates have gained reputation, Intel decided to speed up the development of its Atom CPUs, pushing them faster than Moore's Law dictates. The Atom series of Intel central processing units is one which users will find in almost every ne...

31 May 2011
02:51 GMT

Intel Quietly Launches Atom Z650 Tablet SoC

Intel has just quietly added a new member to its Oak Trail SoC platform, the Atom Z650 which is based on the same architecture as the previously introduced Z670, but is designed to be used inside less expensive tablets. The Oak Trail platform was designed for slates and other low-power devices and comprises the Linc...

25 May 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel Cedar Trail Atom Processors to Debut in September

Later this year, Intel is expected to launch its new line of Atom processors based on the 32nm Cedar Trail architecture and recent reports claim that the CPUs won't arrive in the fourth quarter of the year as previously thought, but about a month sooner than this, in September. The Cedar Trail platform is compr...

24 May 2011
06:11 GMT

Intel to Accelerate Atom CPU Design, 14nm Airmont Expected in 2014

Not satisfied with the company's current roadmap for Atom processors, Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, has just announced that the Santa Clara chip giant will quicken the pace at which it rolls out new Atom core designs. By going this route, Intel hopes that it will be able to push its Atom processors inside...

18 May 2011
06:11 GMT

Computex Will See Ten or More Intel Tablets

Even though it has yet to establish a strong presence on the IT market, Intel is not about to start slacking off any time soon, and Computex might just be the occasion it needs to really let loose.The tablet market could be seen as the land of missed opportunities, so to speak, at least as far as some platforms are ...

18 May 2011
05:20 GMT

Intel's Upcoming Cedar Trail Mobile Atom Processors Get Detailed

In the fourth quarter of this year, Intel plans to release a new series of Atom processors that will be based on the 32nm Cedar Trail architecture. This CPU series will include two desktop and two mobile chips, the latter of which have just been detailed.These new chips will go by the name of Atom N2600 and Atom N280...

17 May 2011
10:56 GMT

Intel Wants Oak Trail Tablets with Android 3.1

Intel may have once been focused on seeing its processors paired with the Microsoft Windows OS, but it looks like it now wants a certain new Atom chip to be used in as many Android devices as possible.It has been about a month since Intel delivered its newest member of the Atom series of central processing units.Tha...

13 May 2011
04:35 GMT

Intel's First 22nm Tri-Gate Atom CPUs to Arrive in 2013

Intel seems to be in no hurry to transition its Atom processors to the 22nm Tri-Gate manufacturing technology, which the company has announced just recently, as sources familiar with the company's plans have mentioned that Intel's first such design will be released only in 2013. The new Atom micro-archit...

12 May 2011
16:21 GMT

Tri-Gate Technology May Allow Intel to Challenge ARM Say Analysts

Intel's recently announced Tri-Gate 22nm manufacturing process may enable the company to compete with the armada of ARM-based chips that took the mobile world by storm, believe analysts at one of the largest market research firms. “Marching down the nanometer curve will definitely help Intel to penetrat...

11 May 2011
11:41 GMT

Intel Will Lay Off on Netbook Restrictions Once Cedar Trail Atoms Arrive

It seems that the times of netbooks being mostly limited to a form factor and hardware parameters dictated by Intel is drawing to a close now that a newer and stronger generation of CPUs is approaching. End-users following the events on the laptop market, and the netbook segment in particular, are probably aware ...

10 May 2011
07:20 GMT


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