While it's not much of a big-seller for the past months, it seems that Intel Atom chips are heading for its end. Intel recently published its financial results for Q4 2011 as well as for the whole year. However, despite its large overall record sales, this wasn't enough to save one particular CPU series from its decline.
According to the report, the revenue brought by the Atom micro-architecture was of $167 million. This figure doesn't sound that bad, but compared with the third quarter of 2010, it shows a 38 %drop, and as much as 57% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.
Atom is Intel's series of central processing units for low-cost and low-power systems and mobile products. It had a very good run by the time netbooks were a hit. However, this has changed since the tablet came into the picture. In addition, Atom also had rival s in the market, such as the NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Qualcomm Snapdragon.
One may think that the Santa Clara, California-based IT giant is quietly and slowly letting go of the Atom name in order to avoid the shame in terms of power efficiency, compared to ARM units. Nonetheless, the chips themselves won't disappear, even if netbooks and the Atom processors do.
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