Intel ‘Silvermont’ chip demo makes old Atom look lame

Intel just killed off its existing Atom if the Computex demo of the redesigned Atom is any indication of real world performance. The system with the upcoming Silvermont Atom is in the middle.

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Intel)

Here’s some good advice. Wait for Intel’s upcoming Silvermont chip.
In a demo Wednesday at Computex, Intel seemed to instantly — and thoroughly — obsolete the existing Atom, known as “Clover Trail,” in a head-to-head “bake off,” as the Intel demo guy put it.
The “current best-in-class Intel Atom-based
tablet” (Clover Trail) was pitted against a tablet with the upcoming (and…

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