Intel and hardware partners launched a tiny, low-power single-board computer aimed at developers last year. Called the MinnowBoard, the system featured an Intel Atom E640 processor and a $199 price ...

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 ...

How would you like your dear mom to have to drive herself around town in a cramped, jerky car that sputtered along the roadway, taking forever to make the same shopping trips that her friends zip ...

You’ve perhaps never seen a full-blown computer smaller than Intel’s amazingly thin Compute Card, announced for the first time at CES. At first glance, it’s easy to mistake the modular computer for a ...

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.

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

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 ...

For years now, people have been trying to stuff an Intel processor on a credit card sized board. An x86 board that can fit in your pocket is an intriguing device – after all, that’s what Gumstix, the ...

Computers have become absurdly cheap. The list of Amazon’s best-selling notebooks is dominated by inexpensive systems that sell for $500 or less, and several best-sellers are priced below $200. That’s ...

IDG News Ser – Handheld computer maker OQO showed off an Atom-based device at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, hinting at a potential design win for the chip maker. Pictures of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. is handing over the secrets of its Atom processor to an Asian manufacturer in a gambit to sell more of the tiny chips that go into smart phones, set-top boxes and other ...

Chip maker AMD has launched a range of low-power server processors – the Opteron X-Series. These chips are high-density, power-efficient, small-core x86 processors that “beat the top-performing Intel ...