Intel Takes Aim at Apple and ARM With New Atom Chips

Intel's revealed some details of its next-gen Atom CPUs, essentially extending the capabilities of the chips that powered the netbook revolution. Since this is over, Intel really wants the Atoms inside tablet PCs, to rival Apple's ARM relationship.

The chips are the "Moorestown" architecture we've been hearing about for a while, and it's been rebranded with a much sexier-sounding "Z6" label for the official launch. The earlier Atoms were revolutionary because though they were, in some sense...