Intel bets on emerging market with new Atom chip

Betting on the market for small laptops and desktops, Sean Maloney, an Intel executive vice president, unveiled two new Atom processors during a keynote address at the Computex trade show  in Taiwan. Intel began shipping Atom chips  for mobile Internet devices, which are small pocketable machines, back in April.

Power consumption and integrating a processor into portable or embedded devices have always caused problems for Intel, and this is not the first time the company has offered processors aimed at those uses. But the Atom is radically different in that it has a new architecture specially created to reduce power use.

An in-depth review of the Atom chip can be read here.