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Intel Ships New Atom Processors To PC Makers

Posted by timothy on from the shipping-them-to-zoos-wasn't-working dept.

randomErr writes "Intel began shipping the new mobile Atom, formerly codenamed 'Cedar Trail', processors to manufacturers. As with most new chips it has more features and longer battery life. Intel said today 'Computing systems using new Atom processors will debut in early 2012 through leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba.'"

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  1. Re:What? They are still making Atom? by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the tablets and things coming out now are running ARM.

    Come Windows 8, which expands support for capacitive touch tablets, Intel wants to be ready in order not to give the entire market to ARM. The big advantage of Atom is that existing non-free niche applications designed for Windows XP will likely run on an Atom-powered Windows tablet roughly as fast as they would on a PC with a comparably clocked Pentium 4. Because they're non-free, the end user can't recompile them for ARM, and because they're niche, the publisher is likely unwilling to.

    Microsoft somehow has the power to make everyone cripple their implementation of Atom to 2GB or less RAM supported

    Can you cite an article showing how Microsoft is responsible? Google 2 gb atom limit microsoft failed me.