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…

Released in 2008 Q2, the Intel Atom N270 is not the most recent processor, but it definitely has benefits to users even today. Netbooks have been on the rise since 2007 and introduction of this processor in 2008 gave the category a huge boost. If you want to have a computer that is cheap, small, light weight and goes for a long time on a single charge, you need to get one with an atom processor.

Atom processor speed benchmarks show that these processors are indeed not intended for everyday high-performance use. These figures show that a mobile processor of the same cost bracket usually does under-perform the desktop processor.

Atom Processor vs. Core 2 Duo, even the idea is strange to grasp but there is more sense to it than you’d think. When you think about Atom a fairly slow and the least powerful processor you can buy brand new on the market today pops to mind and Core 2 Duo processors are only a few months into being retired by i7.

An Atom Processor motherboard is a Printed Circuit Board that can be used with an Intel Atom processor. These motherboards are almost always integrated with the processor itself because the packaging Intel uses is BGA.

Cpubenchmark.net has a respectably comprehensive list about Intel Atom processor benchmark results. I’d like to pick just the most popular ones so that you don’t have to weed through that monster list.

Intel Atom processors are made for ultra-portable use, in other words for you to be able to use your netbook on the go for hours at ends. The main point of these processors is their efficiency so that they don’t eat up the little Lithium-Ion battery you get with the mini notebook. It makes sense to compare the different versions through atom benchmarks though.

Atom Processor Z520 is an Intel CPU made for netbooks and nettops. It is one of the first versions of the atom core ever to be released, and as such it is now a bit outdated. There netbooks on the shelves built upon it, so be careful when choosing one; it shouldn’t come with the Z520.