Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Mar 2008 23:18 UTC
Intel "Intel announced yesterday that its upcoming low-cost/low-power CPUs code-named Silverthorne and Diamondville will be sold under a single brand once the products launch. The MID-centric product family will hereafter be known as 'Atom'. Consumers are obviously meant to associate the Atom brand with objects of very small size, though Intel "Quark" would have a certain ring to it."
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Well...
by 1c3d0g on Tue 4th Mar 2008 01:03 UTC
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2005-07-06

...this is nice. Android running on Atom would be spectacular. If they ever designed a compact cellphone with those 2, it would be an instant best-seller. Whoever combines x86-compatibility in a portable format is King. :-)

RE: Well...
by Wes Felter on Tue 4th Mar 2008 02:44 in reply to "Well..."
Wes Felter Member since:
2005-11-15

Atom won't fit in a cell phone and Android doesn't get any advantage from x86 since all the apps are written in Java.

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