However, it is not the forces of energy trapped in chemical bonds or even the awesome power of the atom that we are now beginning to unleash, but human potential itself.
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.
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Building on the device momentum and industry-leading power-efficiency of the award-winning Atom processor Z2760, Intel's first quad-core Atom SoC ("Bay Trail"), will be the most powerful Atom processor to-date -- doubling the computing performance of Intel's current- generation tablet offering and providing the ecosystem with a strong technology foundation and feature set from which to innovate.
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One thing that could enable is faster and more secure mobile devices, the kind of low-power gizmos for which the Atom processor was designed.
When pitching its new line of chips to investors earlier this year, Intel even went so far as to slap an image of the iPhone onto a slide as an example of the sorts of devices future versions of Atom will power.
Intel's goal is to keep reducing the amount of power its Atom processors need until it can slip them into smartphones.
"The addition of the low-power Atom platform enables Intel to address new market segments and further rounds out our expanding portfolio of smartphone offerings, " said Bell.
When Intel wants to show investors the kind of devices that will use future generations of even more power-efficient Atom processors, it flashes a slide with an image of an iPhone.
Intel (15, INTC) has all but dispatched Advanced Micro Devices as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD - news - people ) as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
The latest clue will come Wednesday in Shanghai at the Intel Developer Forum, where the chip maker will detail its new lineup of low-cost, low-power processors, dubbed Atom, for handheld devices and embedded gizmos.
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