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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first portable computer based on Intel’s Centrino Atom chip package is coming in June, although it will be bigger and more expensive than such devices were expected to be. Sharp will manufacture ...

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 ...

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.