Intel's "Atom" processors

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

<<Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of low-cost laptops for
schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data storage capacity as
the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop per Child
organization, which sells a competing machine.>>

(Isn't *real* competition a wonderful thing! It's pretty preposterous that
with all the economies of technology and scale that a current laptop still
costs $600-$1500 and much more when software is considered.)

<<Intel executives also rolled out five new processors under the ''Atom''
brand name. The chips are designed for pocket-size Internet devices. The
chips come in speeds up to 1.86 gigahertz while using less than 3 watts of
power . . . Intel said it has sold "tens of thousands" of the machines but
declined to provide more specific data.

Intel and OLPC have feuded furiously over their competing products.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit OLPC says it has sold hundreds of
thousands of its $188 machines. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spinoff's low-cost XO laptop includes a microprocessor from Advanced Micro
Devices Inc., the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker behind Intel.>>

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Bobby G.