On Sun, 1 May 2016 13:53:02 +1200, rowan schischka wrote:
I wouldnt say no one wants them.
As was reported in the article, there are no more new generations of Atom chips coming out. This is the end of the line.
No, Intel are only cancelling their smartphone and tablet targetted Atoms (Broxton), and the SoFIA SoC for smartphones etc. There’s been no news about Apollo Lake, which is the new Atom-based netbook chip. I would say there’s still a pretty good chance that Intel will continue to operate in this space, if only because a low-cost low-power x86 CPU is still an easier target for a lot of applications (netbooks , as well as higher-end IoT or embedded systems) than ARM is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures>