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Intel ‘Atom’ To Power Android Phones?

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Intel have today unveiled the new ‘Atom’ brand range of low-drain processors. Previously running under the codname ‘Menlow’, the newly branded ‘Centrino Atom’ range will use the Core 2 Duo instruction set and get clock speeds up to 1.8GHz.
The processors, which use an architecture completely revamped for efficiency, are designed for PDA-sized Mobile Internet Devices [...]