Intel and Qualcomm Introduce New Processors, Including Intel's "World's Thinnest" Netbook Platform

The Computex trade show in Taiwan is the venue of choice for new processor announcements from Intel and Qualcomm. Intel's includes a ridiculously thin netbook platform, and Qualcomm's announces the company as the smartphone chipmaker to beat.

Intel announced a few interesting things today, chief among them the bucolically named Oak Trail and Canoe Lake processor lines. Seems like Intel's higher-ups were out at summer camp when thinking of these names. Oak Trail is essentially a...