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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Intel has announced that it’s on track to release its Clover Trail processor platform in the second half of 2012… right around the time that Microsoft plans to release Windows 8. The low power x86 processors will succeed the Atom Z670 Oak Trail chips that have been out since last year. Clover Trail processors are 32nm chips. We won’t see…

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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 has started to supply Cedar Trail chips to computer makers, which means that we could start to see netbook and desktop computers with the new Intel Atom processors by the end of the year. The Cedar Trail platform covers a range of new chips including the Atom N2600 and N2800 notebook chips and D2500 and D2700 desktop chips. The…

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Intel’s next generation Atom processors for netbooks, tablets, and desktops are due out by year’s end, and while the Cedar Trail chips won’t offer much more processing power than today’s Pine Trail chips, it looks like they will offer much better graphics performance. We already knew that the Cedar Trail platform would support 1080p HD video playback and Blu-ray decoding….

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If you were hoping to pick up a netbook with a shiny new Intel Atom Cedar Trail chip for Christmas, you might have to wait until next year’s holiday. Netbook News reports Intel mentioned at the IDF conference this week that its new Cedar Trail platform is on track to launch by the end of the year, but that we probably…

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[/caption] Intel is reportedly hoping computer makers will blur the lines between netbooks and tablets soon. The company’s next-generation Intel Atom chips will be appropriate for standard netbooks with 10 inch screens and keyboards, but Fudzilla reports they may also show up in convertible netbooks with touchscreen displays that can be folded down over the keyboard, or tablets devices with…

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Razer is showing off a new version of the Switchblade portable gaming concept powered by a new Intel Atom chip that Intel hasn’t actually gotten around to announcing yet. Razer has been showing off a prototypes of the Switchblade with a 7 inch display and customizable touch-sensitive buttons instead of a standard keyboard since CES in January. At the time,…

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Update: Microsoft has released its earnings report, and while Intel says netbook growth is slowing, the software maker says its numbers paint a different story — with netbook sales down 32 percent from a year ago during the same period. Overall, Microsoft is seeing a decline in consumer PC sales, but there’s still growth in the business PC sector.  Intel…

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Last month Intel announced that it was stepping up the pace of development for its low power Atom processors so that they would keep in pace with the company’s mainstream chips. Right now most Atom processors are 45 nanometer chips, but soon we’ll see 32nm and smaller chips, leading to more efficient processors. CNET got a little more information about…

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Microsoft is working on its next-generation operating system designed to run on touchscreen tablets as well as it does on laptop or desktop computers. Intel, meanwhile is working on a next-generation Atom chip designed to work in tablets, netbooks, and other low power devices. See a trend here? This next part should come as no surprise, but it turns out…

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