Ultrabooks are thin and light laptops that, by definition, feature Intel processors. That’s because Intel trademarked the word “ultrabook,” and the chipmaker provides PC makers with guidelines for building ultrabooks. But just because all ultrabooks have Intel CPUs doesn’t mean they’ll all have to rely on Intel integrated graphics. Fudzilla reports that several upcoming ultrabooks, possibly including models from Acer…

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Some of the first netbooks with Intel Atom Cedar Trail processors are now available for pre-order. While Cedar Trail chips won’t offer huge performance gains over earlier Atom processors, there are a few advantages. The Intel Atom N2600 and N2800 processors, for instance, have more powerful graphics processors than their predecessors and can handle 1080p HD video playback. Many of…

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Update: It looks like the merger of Tizen and Bada might not be a done deal yet. A Samsung official has told AllThingsD that while the company is considering the possibility, the decision hasn’t been made. Samsung plans to merge its Bada mobile phone operating system with the open source Tizen project backed by Intel. Forbes reports that this means existing…

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Intel is showing off a tablet prototype with a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Medfield processor and Android 4.0 operating system.. The tablet is a pre-production unit from Lenovo called the IdeaTab S2110 and to be honest, it looks nearly identical to any of the dozens of 10 inch Android tablets we’ve seen over the past year. That’s not necessarily a…

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Intel is showing off new concepts for upcoming thin and light laptops, or ultrabook computers. New feature Intel envisions include laptops with touchscreen displays, g-sensors and accelerometers, and gesture-based input that lets you interact with a computer without even touching it. One of the coolest new concepts is something Intel calls Nikiski. It’s a thin and light laptop with a…

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The 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N2600 and 1.86 GHz Atom N2800 chips aren’t the only new netbook processors in Intel’s 2012 lineup. The company has released a detailed document looking at features in the new Cedar Trail chips and it includes a few previously unannounced model numbers. The Intel Atom N2650 will be a 1.7 GHz dual core chip with…

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Intel has started shipping its third-generation Atom chips for low-power mobile computers such as netbooks. The company says products with Cedar Trail chips will debut in early 2012, with some of the first devices coming from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba. Noticeably absent from that list? Dell. The company recently announced that it’s pulling the plug on its…

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Intel is preparing to launch its first Atom chips aimed at smartphones and tablets. The new processors are based on the Medfield platform, and while Intel has been teasing the low-power system-on-a-chip platform for years, the company has been pretty quiet about hte actual specifications. Now the folks at VR Zone have published some of the first specs and benchmark…

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Intel is finally getting ready to launch chips for phones and tablets that could compete with ARM-based processors in terms of performance and power consumption. The company has been working on its next-generation Atom design, code-named Medfield, for a few years. But now Intel is starting to demonstrate reference devices based on the platform. The MIT Technology Review got to…

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Ultrabooks are thin and light portable computers with solid state disks and the latest Intel processors. Right now they’re premium laptops with prices ranging from $899 to nearly $1500. But Intel is hoping that within the next year or two ultrabooks could account for as much as 40 percent of all laptop sales — and for that to happen, the…

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Intel unveiled its next-generation Atom chipset for netbooks this summer, but netbooks with the new Intel Atom Cedar Trail platform hasn’t actually hit the streets yet. VR-Zone says the delay is due to problems with graphics drivers, which could push the launch date for the chips until the end of December, which means we won’t starting seeing netbooks with Cedar…

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Intel is predicting that ultrabooks could make up as much as 40 percent of all laptop sales by the end of 2012. That’s a pretty bold guess, considering there are only a handful of notebooks that meet Intel’s definition of an ultrabook on the market today. But that could change by January. PC Pro reports that between 30 and 50…

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