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Next-gen Intel Atom chips to offer 2x the speed, 3x the graphics performance

You’d have to look pretty hard to find the performance difference between a netbook from 2008 and one from 2012. While Intel has been steadily reducing power consumption of the Atom processors for laptop and desktop computers, the company hasn’t really done much to boost overall performance, aside from adding support for HD video playback […]

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Intel Atom Bay Trail chips coming in 2013, bringing major performance boost

Intel has been making low power, low cost Atom processors since 2008. But to be honest, the fastest Atom processors today aren’t much speedier than the Atom N270 chip Intel first released for netbooks four years ago. The company has moved from single core chips to dual core, and added support for HD video playback. […]