Atom processors are netbook CPUs designed and manufactured by Intel. These processors offer a low-profile power consumption and reasonable performance for a low budgetary price. Netbook manufacturers like to use them for their high efficiency, and low price, these are also the lowest power consumption X86 based processors on the market at the moment. There are other solutions, such as ARM based CPUs used in smartphones and some MIDs(Mobile Internet…

The Intel Atom processor is not a new thing, these chips have been around for three years now and with little modifications you are still using the same piece of design produced in 2007. There are three different models used in low-end netbooks, and a few others in higher price category models. They are different in clock speed and power usage, L2 cache and other bits but the general result is fairly unified; not so powerful.