Intel Ships 100 Million Atom CPUs in Three Years
Not bad for three years of availability.
There was a time, in the height of the netbook craze, when Intel’s Atom processor seemed to be in every single small computer that hit the market. Since then, the company’s seen some stiff competition from the likes of AMD, Nvidia and ARM, but that hasn’t stopped the steady shipment of Atoms.
Intel is this week celebrating a milestone for the Atom processor. The company today spent part of its Computex keynote wishing Atom a happy birthday (it’s three years old this year) and revealed that to date, the company has shipped a whopping one hundred million Atom CPUs.
The 100 million mark is something Intel has been aiming for since 2008, and at the time, it seemed like a tall order for the chip company. However, here we are, three years later, and Intel has achieved its goal.
For a blast from the past, check out this piece written by our own Wolfgang Gruener back in 2008 during the launch of Intel’s then-new Silverthorne Atom.
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I'm surprised it isn't more really, those cheeky little netbooks seem to be everywhere! I bet most of those will be the trusty old n270, not the most cutting edge chip ever produced but the culture change these cheap and cheerful shards of silicon produced IMHO earn them a place in the hall of fame somewhere down from the voodoo and the pentium 75...